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A data structure representing an object in a Unix (or similar) file system
An identifier for a UFS file; similar to an AdvFS file domain tag
The portion of a file that contains the handle, the state field, and the data pointers
entry point leading to the contents of a file on a Unix-like filesystem An inode is identified in a unique way by a number, and contains meta-information about the file it refers to, such as its access times, its type, its size, but not its name!
A data structure that describes the individual files in an operating system There is one inode for each file The number of inodes in a file system, and therefore the maximum number of files a file system can contain, is set when the file system is created Hardlinked files share the same inode
The EXT2 filesystem uses inodes for organizing information on files Inodes contain information such as the owner of its file, permissions, date of change, etc
A file's inode (index-node) holds the file's attributes and disk addresses of the file's blocks, within the file system
You hear the word a lot Here, finally, is what it means An inode is a data structure that contains information about a file The inode for a file keeps track of all the following information: the file's length, when the file was last accessed and modified, access privileges, owner and group IDs, number of links, the time the inode was last modified, and pointers to the data blocks that contain the file itself There is always one inode per file When parts of the inode are lost, they pop up in the directory lost+found within the partition they once existed in
(n ) In environments based on UNIX®, an entry in a designated area of a disk that describes where a file is located on that disk, the file's size, when it was last used, and other identification information
A data structure that describes a file Within any filesystem, the number of inodes, and hence the maximum number of files, is set when the filesystem is created See also article 1 22
The control structure for all files on UNIX operating systems Inode stands for Index Node, and is the focus of all file activities in the UNIX filesystem Each file has one inode that defines the file's type (regular, directory, device, and so forth), the location on disk, the size of the file, access permissions, access times, and so forth Note that the file's name is not stored in the inode; instead, the directory associates filenames with inodes
In Unix filesystems, a block of administrative data for a file on the disk partition
The internal structure that describes the individual files in the operating system There is one inode for each file An inode contains the node, type, owner, and location of a file A table of inodes is stored in strategic locations of a file system
Data structures that contain information about files in Unix file systems
A data structure holding information about files in a Unix file system There is an inode for each file and a file is uniquely identified by the file system on which it resides and its inode number on that system Each inode contains the following information: the device where the inode resides, locking information, mode and type of file, the number of links to the file, the owner's user and group ids, the number of bytes in the file, access and modification times, the time the inode itself was last modified and the addresses of the file's blocks on disk A Unix directory is an association between file leafnames and inode numbers A file's inode number can be found using the "-i" switch to ls
A data structure that contains information about individual files in UNIX file systems Each file has one inode An inode contains the node, type, owner, and location of a file
Pointer to a data block or another inode
As per UNIX, the structure defining a file (except for the filename which is stored in the directory entry) The inode cache is a closed hash table indexed by superblock and inode number, and is only hit when the dentry lookup failed
A UNIX term for a number created to identify each file in a UNIX file system Used for tracing information