Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:38:57 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 06:33:54PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > I've been sitting on this question for years, hoping I'd come across the > answer, and I STILL don't know what the "i" is short for. Somebody here has > got to know this. :)
Incore node, I believe. In the original Unix code there was dinode and inode if I remember correctly, for disk node and incore node. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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