Hi,
> Depends on the size of the file. Read the stuff about single, double
> and triple indirect inodes in some UNIX text - Bach or McKusick for example.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I guess when you talk about "double
and triple indirect inodes" you actually meant "double and triple indirect
blocks". I don't think inodes are used to double and triple indirect
mappings. AFAIK, each inode holds a list of blocks that the file occupies,
initially there is a list of plain disk blocks the file occupies, followed
by one (or may be more, depending on the file system) indirect block,
which essentially holds a list of blocks within it, and a double indirect
block.
Each inode on disk represents one file exactly. When you have two
links to a file, the respective entries in the directory (for the two
links) point to the same inode in inode table. By links I mean hard links,
not symlinks.
In essence an inode is a file.
Regards,
Kedar.
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