find inode

[Ken Gillett]

I know I asked this before, but I'm still looking for a superior 
solution.

I want to be able to find files/directories by their inode number. I 
know I can use 'find -inum' but this is excruciatingly slow at first. 
Repeated 'find's are quicker so it must cache the data, but initially 
it is very slow. I guess it must be simply doing a file by file scan 
until it matches the number, which is way slower than 'find'ing by 
name.

  I need to find the actual path from the inode number, can anyone 
suggest a faster way of doing it?



Ken  G i l l e t t

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