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From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, 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 09:38:57PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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.

That's a new one. I always thought it was 'information node' so in the
above it'd be disk information node and just information node.

Makes sense to me in any case. :)

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