I have found this defitition of the word inode on the net (http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?9998&34&232&0&3):
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inode:
Index or Information Node. This is a structure containg the basic information about a file such as owner, type, access permissions and pointers to the actual data on the disk. Inodes are stored in the per filesystem inode table and are referenced through inode numbers.
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This sounds to me as something rather similar to the info contained in the MS FAT table. Is the inode table something similar to the FAT or am I missing something?
Also - the inode table is,according to the documentation, at the start of the file system. What does this physically mean - where is it on the disk? I though that the mbr was at the start?
And lastly - what is the importance/relevance of the inode table and its info for the understanding of linux?
Thanks,
Andrei
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