On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:33, Rob Landley wrote:
> I've been sitting on this question for years, hoping I'd come across the
> answer, and I STILL don't know what the "i" is short for. Somebody here has
> got to know this. :)
>
Two plausible definitions:
The Magic Garden Explained calls them "information nodes".
A really old (1983) Byte Book called Introducing the Unix System has
this to say:
A file in the UNIX system is described by an object called an
"i-node". We think that the name means "interior node", since
the UNIX file-system is (in principle at least) a directed
graph. For every file there is a single i-node that describes
that file, and contains pointers to blocks that comprise that
file.
So, what do you _want_ it to mean? :-)
- Joe DiMartino
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