Inodes are the cornerstone of web hosting. Skip to main content ... Every file, directory, and device on a Unix-based system - including Linux servers has an associated inode that stores its metadata.

Inodes are data structures, but they are usually stored on a disk and read into memory for reference and modification. Looking at the inode data structure it's easy to see why 96KB is important. The ...

Links in Linux are like shortcuts: references to a file that don't duplicate it. A symbolic link references by filename but breaks if its target moves. A hard link references by a file's inode ...

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Inodes play a crucial role in file identification and retrieval. Unlike some other filesystems (like FAT, which uses a file allocation table), Linux filesystems use inodes to store metadata and ...

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 ...