On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:32:09AM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:02 -0600, Josh Coates wrote: > > >A file is basically just a collection of > > >inodes, and the file name is tied to the first inode. > > > > just for the sake of squashing misinformation, the statement above is a > > false. i'm sure lots of people caught that, but for record i figured it'd > > be a good thing to correct. > > Ah, I see the difference. For some reason I had thought all the data > blocks were called inodes. Mea culpa. Where that idea came from I have > no idea. I blame it on violent video games.
in FAT (at least FAT12), instead of inodes, it uses a linked-list-ish sort of thing with each node being a block of memory... that might be what you were thinking... /me tries to wipe memories of FAT12.... -- Erin Sharmahd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS Student Unix Users Group PGP Fingerprint: F352 FF41 EA0A 67E4 566B 3B5B E65A D3DC 083E 9336
pgpQUgtg5wqDJ.pgp
Description: PGP signature
.===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
