COpying to Same Inode ....

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Is there a way to copy a file from on file system to another and keep the
> inode number(s) the same on that particular file. I know the inode(s) will
> have to be free on the receiving file system.

I don't know the answer, but i'm curious why you'd want to do that?  I'd
imagine that it would be a very filesystem specific process.  It would
also depend on the number of inodes in each filesystem.