From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/10/2026 9:11 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   > On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:10:17 +0000   
   > Jeff Layman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/02/2026 03:46, RonB wrote:   
   >>> On 2026-02-08, Mike Easter  wrote:   
   >>>> RonB wrote:   
   >>>>> So it's all still a mystery to me.)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Someone said 'in linux everything is a directory'; but some   
   >>>> 'directories' are more 'real' or conventional than others.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This seems to be a case of an 'operational' directory.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/vfs.html   
   >>>>> Overview of the Linux Virtual File System   
   >>>   
   >>> I've bookmarked that page for reading later.   
   >>   
   >> Having glanced at it, Easter 2033 seems reasonable... ;-)   
   >>   
   >   
   > I get 2033-04-17, not April 1st.   
      
   Exciting!   
      
   That's how NTFS filenum gets   
   exposed as an inode number. And partially how   
   NTFS ends up with the feature set it does. Only enough   
   of the actual underlying file system is wired up, to   
   make it look like stat() is dealing with any other   
   file system. That's so how NTFS can be treated like   
   an EXT4, you can switch back and forth without having   
   to be aware of what is underneath.   
      
   The diagram here does not render properly (SVG), but   
   the PNG in the ZIP file is fine. Then you can see how   
   important the VFS is (it's near the top of the diagram).   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_file_system   
      
      https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wikiDE/images/f/f0/Linux-stor   
   ge-stack-diagram_v6.2.zip   
      
         Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)