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 ...

With that file size, you wouldn't get anywhere near running out of inodes even on the defaults. Don't get me wrong, ext3 sucks, and it sucks that it's the best current choice on Linux, but the ...

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 ...

Inodes are little data structures that define files. In the ext2 file system an inode is 128 bits long. Conveniently, all the stuff that follows applies to both the Linux ext2 file system and the DEC ...

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 ...

Inodes are a fundamental element of any Linux web hosting platform. They are essentially the “building blocks” that enable your website to run smoothly and efficiently, but most people don’t ...

On the other hand, inode numbers can have six ... Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career.

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 ...