Inode

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  inode
       
          A data structure holding information about files in a {Unix}
          {file system}.  There is an inode for each file and a file
          is uniquely identified by the file system on which it
          resides and its inode number on that system.  Each inode


          contains the following information: the device where the inode
          resides, locking information, mode and type of file, the
          number of links to the file, the owner's user and group ids,
          the number of bytes in the file, access and modification
          times, the time the inode itself was last modified and the
          addresses of the file's blocks on disk.  A {Unix} directory is
          an association between file leafnames and inode numbers.  A
          file's inode number can be found using the "-i" switch to ls.
       
          {Unix manual page}: fs(5).
       
          See also /usr/include/ufs/inode.h.