Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:34:24 -0400 |
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On Friday 19 July 2002 12:45 am, CaT wrote: > 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. :)
So far I've also received off-list mails saying that it stands for "index" (this person cited "the design of the unix operating system", by Maurice J Bach, which I have on my shelf but don't remember that bit from), and another vote for "indirection" from somebody I recognize as being on this list longer than I have...
That's it, I'm going to go email Dennis Richie...
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