os.stat('<filename>')[stat.ST_INO] on Windows

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Mar 1 18:24:04 EST 2005


Tim Roberts wrote:
>>Are inodes supported on Windows NTFS, FAT, FAT32?
> 
> 
> No.  Inodes are strictly a Unix filesystem concept.

I disagree. NTFS MFT records are so similar to inodes
that their numbers could well be used in st_ino (except
that they are 64-bit quantities, whereas st_ino
typically has only 32 bits).

Regards,
Martin



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