Cheatsheet: Difference between revisions

Line 852:
* Inode is entry in inode table containing metadata about a regular file and directory.
* An inode is a data structure on a traditional Unix-style file system such as ext3 or ext4.
* Stores all the information about a file except its name and its actual data.
* Linux extended filesystems such as ext2 or ext3 maintain an array of these inodes: the inode table.
* This table contains list of all files in that filesystem.