On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a >>> file. You could think of it simply as a directory entry, but it's more >>> complicated than that. >> >> Sorry to be That Guy, but an inode is definitely not a directory entry, >> it's something a directory entry points to. > > *I* know what an inode is but I was trying to give a non-technical user a > simpler idea of it since he really doesn't need the details. I also pretty > clearly said it wasn't really a directory entry. My first description was > correct and then I gave a simpler concept that was good enough.
I knew what you meant. :-) Sometimes I feel it is unfortunate that the term "directory" is used when a "folder" would seem better in some cases. When you walk into a building you see a sign on the wall with a list of companies and what floor they can be found on. That sign is often called a "directory" and an "entry" on the directory indicates where the company is located. From that point of view an inode is an entry in a "directory" (inode table) with pointers (and other info) to where a file or "folder" can be found in storage. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
