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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 08:31:18 -0600
From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
To: Georg Nikodym <georgn@somanetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Alright, I give up.  What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 10:22:07AM -0400, Georg Nikodym wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 10:20, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > So what was that program that was used to fix file system errors called? Started
> > with a "d". I remembered the name up until a few years ago when I said
> > something about fixing filesystems with whatever it was and adb in front of Dave Miller
> > who seemed ready to rush me off to the museum to be exhibited in the paleology section.
> > Now I'm too old to even remember the name.
> 
> Sure you're not thinking of "fsdb"?

icheck and dcheck - thanks to the people who sent me mail reminding me.



> 
> -g
> 



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