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Catalin Marinas wrote:
> For this situation, it would make sense to have multiple ids for a
> file.

Robert Collins, Michael Groikhman and I have each come up with the idea 
of "file id aliases", independently.  So they're probably a good idea, 
but the design isn't complete and implementation hasn't happened.

Aaron

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