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Old 05-08-2002
INodes...
Could someone please explain to me the concept of INodes?
Colour me a DOS/MacOS junkie, but I don't quite understand.
Is there any relation to clusters, or physical distro.?
ty.
boris888
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Old 05-08-2002
Inodes are the numerical representation of a file. Each file has a unique number/inode, also there is metadata associated with the file.

Most filesystems have a max inode limit, whic represents the number of files that can be created in a filesystem. This number can be set at the time you create a filesystem depending on the filesystem type.
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Old 05-08-2002
For simplicity sake, think of an inode on a Unix
system like a sector on a DOS FAT filesystem.
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Old 05-09-2002
interesting. thanks, that explains alot! One other question, though: I've heard that the Ext2 fs is more... efficeint... how is this relational to INodes? I think I heard that instaed of using wasteful clusters, the INodes are the actual size of the file...?
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