How to read the superblock file from disk and load the inodes into memory. load_inodes() opens the superblock file and then calls create_inode() to recursively make inodes. I chose to use recursion ...

In computing, a file system (or filesystem) is used to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, information placed in a storage area would be one large body of data with no way ...

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 ...

If you have been using Linux long enough, you will have seen the term “inodes”. It is something that will show up occasionally, but doesn’t affect what you are doing. Here we will explain what is ...

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 ...

Inodes are a fundamental element of any Linux web hosting platform. They are essentially the “building blocks” that enable your website to run smoothly and efficiently, but most people don’t even know ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode number ...