From: Kevin Puetz <puetzk@iastate.edu>
To: landley@trommello.org
Subject: Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:51:13 -0500
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> 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. :) 

The man himself answers... but you probably won't like it :-)
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/credits.htm#12

The meaning of the i in i-node

From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com (Dennis M. Ritchie)
To: wolfram@roesler-ac.de
Date: 06 Apr 2001

I don't remember the discussion, but probably "index".
I can't recall a time when it was expanded out.  The
name was always just i-node.
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