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

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:38:57 -0700

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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