The inode (index node) is the on-disk data structure that stores everything the kernel needs to know about a file -- except its name. Every file, directory, symlink, and special file has exactly one ...

The Very Simple File System (VSFS) is a simplified implementation of a Unix-like file system designed for educational purposes to demonstrate fundamental file system concepts. VSFS organizes data ...

The ls command is probably one of the first commands that anyone using Unix learns, but it only shows a small portion of the information that is available with the stat command. The stat command pulls ...

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 ...