Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?

From: Kevin Puetz (puetzk@iastate.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 21:51:13 EST


> I've been sitting on this question for years, hoping I'd come across the
> answer, and I STILL don't know what the "i" is short for. Somebody here has
> got to know this. :)

The man himself answers... but you probably won't like it :-)
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/credits.htm#12

The meaning of the i in i-node

From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com (Dennis M. Ritchie)
To: wolfram@roesler-ac.de
Date: 06 Apr 2001

I don't remember the discussion, but probably "index".
I can't recall a time when it was expanded out. The
name was always just i-node.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jul 23 2002 - 22:00:32 EST