This article aims to provide an understanding of some of the critical concepts within Linux filesystems: inodes, block sizes, and data structures, as well as to how these elements work together to ...

Also, scanning for files that contain the same content but don't share inodes (i.e., simply file copies) would take considerably more time and effort. Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux ...

It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

Linux implements Extended Attributes, also called EAs or xattrs. These are name/value pairs associated with files as an extension to normal inode-based attributes. EAs allow functionality to be added ...

I bought some new kit for a Linux HTPC. It has a 320g as one of its drives. Last night Debian formatted the drive and I didn't think of the bytes-per-inode setting since I figured it would ...

My usual strategy for dealing with oddly named files is to list the file’s inode number ... Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux ...