Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 12:45 am, CaT wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:38:57PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 06:33:54PM -0400, 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. :)
>>>
>>>Incore node, I believe. In the original Unix code there was dinode and
>>>inode if I remember correctly, for disk node and incore node.
>>
>>That's a new one. I always thought it was 'information node' so in the
>>above it'd be disk information node and just information node.
>>
>>Makes sense to me in any case. :)
No it doesn't not. Becouse that would rather describe a super block.
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