Bob Miller wrote:
> Short answer: every file has contents and it has some "metadata".
> E.g., the content of a text file is the text. The metadata is its
> owner, group, permissions, size, and some pointers to where the
> content is stored on the disk. All that metadata is stored in an
> on-disk structure called the i-node (short for indirect node, for
> reasons that have been irrelevant for 25 years).
FYI, the file's NAME is not stored in the inode. It's stored in the
directory. Specifically, a directory is nothing more than a set of
<Name, I-number> pairs. The i-number is an index into the table of
inodes.
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