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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 07:35:27AM -0400, Brett Serkez wrote:
>NTFS and FAT file systems simply do not have the concept of inodes,
>Cygwin is dependent upon the facilities supplied by these file systems.

Actually NTFS does have something like an inode.  That's what Cygwin
uses.

cgf

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