Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? | From | Joe DiMartino <> | Date | 22 Jul 2002 15:23:12 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:33, 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. :) >
Two plausible definitions:
The Magic Garden Explained calls them "information nodes".
A really old (1983) Byte Book called Introducing the Unix System has this to say:
A file in the UNIX system is described by an object called an "i-node". We think that the name means "interior node", since the UNIX file-system is (in principle at least) a directed graph. For every file there is a single i-node that describes that file, and contains pointers to blocks that comprise that file.
So, what do you _want_ it to mean? :-)
- Joe DiMartino
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