Inodes are data structures that define a file's existance. An inode
contains information on the file's length, access, inode-change and
data-modification times, owner and group id's, access privileges,
number of links, and pointers to data blocks that contain the file
itself, but they do not contain the file's name. (This was from a
Unix course I took at my company last year.)
The command 'stat' prints out the contents of an inode in a
human-readable format. Try 'man stat' for more info.
Scott Boyd
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I wonder if someone could tell me what they are. This may sound a little
> silly, but it's something that's been on my mind the last couple of
> days. It strikes me that they might be the Linux equivalant of an MS
> cluster. Is that right?
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