On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a
file.  You could think of it simply as a directory entry, but it's more
complicated than that.

Sorry to be That Guy, but an inode is definitely not a directory entry,
it's something a directory entry points to.

*I* know what an inode is but I was trying to give a non-technical user a simpler idea of it since he really doesn't need the details. I also pretty clearly said it wasn't really a directory entry. My first description was correct and then I gave a simpler concept that was good enough.
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