Hi,

I'm learning Solaris. I have this question.

If i use ufsdump to backup my file system to tape. Later, I use ufsrestore command to extract whole content the content of file system onto another file system. Does the inode number change?

It will get new number belong to new file system, independent of inode recorded to tape and old file system. Or the inodes are allocated such that the inode numbers after the restore are identical to the inode numbers recorded on tape, effectively overwriting inodes that had been allocated before the restore.

Please help me to clear this process.

Thanks.

I think that Inodes are assigned depending on the file's position on the disk, after you restore you will probably need to update any hard links. Try it with a test file and a hard link to that file, if the link is broken after a restore then the Inode has changed.

Inodes numbers stored on the backup are not used when files are restored.
The restored files inodes are created on the fly and are unrelated to the previous ones.

So the inode number on the new file system is quite different with the old on the old file system and backup tape. I don't have any Solaris machine now (i've just learn about it) so cannot test to see how it change.

Thanks for your help.

There are cases where it must be different, for example if you restore in another directory the old version of a file still present on the file-system, as obviously you cannot have two different files sharing the same inode.