Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. computing A data structure representing an object in a Unix (or similar) file system.
Etymologies
- Possibly index node. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We changed/added Dolphin in the "inode" section of "File Associations" which replaced Konqueror with Dolphin.”
“Editing either of these locations once alters the results on both the softlink and the actual inode-based file.”
“There newfs options that let you control bytes per inode, as well as fragmentation size; those may be of use as well.”
“We could take the inode table way of doing things, and just have “an onode is X bytes, and X/block size = Y many onodes per block”, but that does have a lot to be desired – we may want variable sized forks to be stored along side onodes e.g. what would typically go in an inode.”
“Above this, the namespace layer could find out if we can pack something into an inode, and if so, optimize for that e.g. linear list of files for directories under 1k.”
“A symlink is an inode that contains the name of a hard link.”
“Instead, each inode is linked into the filesystem by one or more hard links.”
“What this means is that multiple filenames refer to the same file (that is, they are associated with the same inode number).”
“The inode contains the file itself, i.e., the location of the information being stored on disk, its access permissions, the file type, and so on.”
“A directory is simply a list of filenames and inode numbers, that is, a list of hard links.”
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