[ale] inode change after vi a file ?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jerry Yu wrote:
> To my surprise, the inode #  changes as long as I do ":w" inside vi.  This
> holds true on a stock installation of CentOS 4.1 and CentOS 4.3 (equivalent
> of RHEL 4.* AS) . Anyone knows this is a new feature? If it is a feature,
> I'd like to learn ways to turn it off.
> 
> [zyu at saturn ~]$ date > blah; ls -i blah; vi blah; ls -i blah
> 688427 blah
> 692394 blah

That's interesting.  Same thing here on SuSE.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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