On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 16:45 -0700, 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.
Well, of course you know what an inode is and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. I just think that saying it's like a directory entry (even with the qualification) is not helpful, especially as the term 'directory entry' crops up in this context and means something different. Put it down to my many years teaching this stuff but I'm always thinking about how the student might misunderstand something. poc _______________________________________________ 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
