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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:38:57 -0700
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Subject: Re: Alright, I give up.  What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 06:33:54PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> I've been sitting on this question for years, hoping I'd come across the 
> answer, and I STILL don't know what the "i" is short for.  Somebody here has 
> got to know this. :)

Incore node, I believe.  In the original Unix code there was dinode and
inode if I remember correctly, for disk node and incore node.
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