Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?

[Joe DiMartino]

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:33, 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. :)
> 

Two plausible definitions:

The Magic Garden Explained calls them "information nodes".

A really old (1983) Byte Book called Introducing the Unix System has
this to say:

	A file in the UNIX system is described by an object called an
	"i-node".  We think that the name means "interior node", since
	the UNIX file-system is (in principle at least) a directed
	graph.  For every file there is a single i-node that describes
	that file, and contains pointers to blocks that comprise that
	file.

So, what do you _want_ it to mean? :-)

- Joe DiMartino