Data structure describing a file-system object and disk block locations of the object data
The inode (index node) is a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block locations of the object's data.[1] File-system object attributes may include metadata (times of last change,[2] access, modification), as well as owner and permission data.[3]
A directory is a list of inodes with their assigned names. The list includes an entry for itself, its parent, and each of its children.
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