inode

We changed/added Dolphin in the "inode" section of "File Associations" which replaced Konqueror with Dolphin.

LinuxQuestions.org soupnsandwich 2009

Editing either of these locations once alters the results on both the softlink and the actual inode-based file.

Move Files Without Breaking Stuff | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Editing either of these locations once alters the results on both the softlink and the actual inode-based file.

Move Files Without Breaking Stuff | Lifehacker Australia 2009

There newfs options that let you control bytes per inode, as well as fragmentation size; those may be of use as well.

Mac OS X Defragmenting | Evil Genius Chronicles 2005

We could take the inode table way of doing things, and just have “an onode is X bytes, and X/block size = Y many onodes per block”, but that does have a lot to be desired – we may want variable sized forks to be stored along side onodes e.g. what would typically go in an inode.

Tightly packing onodes | Ramblings 2004

Above this, the namespace layer could find out if we can pack something into an inode, and if so, optimize for that e.g. linear list of files for directories under 1k.

XFS and other cool things | Ramblings 2003

Instead, each inode is linked into the filesystem by one or more hard links.

Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage John Goerzen

What this means is that multiple filenames refer to the same file (that is, they are associated with the same inode number).

Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage John Goerzen

The inode contains the file itself, i.e., the location of the information being stored on disk, its access permissions, the file type, and so on.

Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage John Goerzen

A symlink is an inode that contains the name of a hard link.

Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage John Goerzen