Hello i'm baffled too (but learned new word: baffled) because i knew inode was always 0 on windows.. but effectively the version suggested by Athanasius, ie gnuwin32 return some number while unxutils return 0.

>touch test.txt
>
>
>which ls.exe
>C:\various_stuffs\bin\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin\ls.exe
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>ls -il test.txt
      0 -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group           0 Nov 13 09:57 test.tx
+t

>C:\some_path\GnuWin32\bin\ls.exe -il test.txt
>3377699722053632 -rw-rw-rw-  1 lt 0 0 2014-11-13 09:57 test.txt
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Can someone tell us if we can use reliably this inode number?

Thanks
L*