What is an inode?

Answer Posted / ramya a v

Inode is a structure contains the information necessary for
a process to access a file.Exist in a static form on disk
and the kernel reads them into an in-core inode.
consists of
- file owner identifier
- file type
- file access permissions
- file access times
- number of links to the file
- table of contents for the disk address of data in a file
- file size

in-core copy of the inode contains
- status of the in-core inode
- logical device number of file system
- inode number
- pointers to other in-core inodes
- reference count

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