Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:45:18 +1000 | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:38:57PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > 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.
That's a new one. I always thought it was 'information node' so in the above it'd be disk information node and just information node.
Makes sense to me in any case. :)
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