On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I knew what you meant. :-)
>
> Sometimes I feel it is unfortunate that the term "directory" is used when a
> "folder" would seem better
> in some cases.
they were called directories long before Apple (or was it MS?) decided
to "simplify" it by calling them folders.
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