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curprev 14:2914:29, 15 August 2026 MüllerMarcus talk contribs 21,419 bytes −27 incorrect links: direct.h is a windows-only header, and does **not** contain getpwd() etc, but only *similar* _getpwd() etc, which interact with inodes *differently* than described here. undo

curprev 21:4921:49, 6 May 2026 ~2026-27366-46Temporary account has expired talk 21,446 bytes +2 grammar undo

curprev 03:1903:19, 25 April 2026 SchlurcherBot talk contribs m 21,444 bytes +7 Bot: http → https undo

curprev 07:2407:24, 3 March 2026 EatingCarBatteries talk contribs 21,437 bytes −6 Changing short description from "Data structure in a Unix-style file system" to "Data structure in a Unix file system" undo Tag: Shortdesc helper
curprev 07:2407:24, 3 March 2026 EatingCarBatteries talk contribs 21,443 bytes −48 Changing short description from "Data structure describing a file-system object and disk block locations of the object data" to "Data structure in a Unix-style file system" undo Tag: Shortdesc helper

curprev 23:3223:32, 24 November 2025 Tc14Hd talk contribs m 21,491 bytes −25 →Details: Connected two sentences undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App section source

curprev 18:3518:35, 5 October 2025 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 21,516 bytes +203 Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5) (Tomkozak61 - 26429 undo

curprev 22:2122:21, 26 June 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,313 bytes +87 →POSIX inode description: I fixed the semantics to match reality, and cleaned up some other stuff. undo

curprev 16:2316:23, 30 May 2025 Yegor C talk contribs m 21,226 bytes +4 →POSIX inode description: I fixed the grammar. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 20:4020:40, 5 May 2025 NomadicVoxel talk contribs m 21,222 bytes −1 Changed "The inode..." to "An inode..." in intro sentence. Because this isn't a singular, each computer file is an inode, isn't it? undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 09:3409:34, 13 January 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,223 bytes +25 →Historical possibility of directory hard linking: Hard links to directories are specific to HFS+ volumes; APFS doesn't support it (it's a copy-on-write/copy-on-allocate file system and doesn't need directory hard links to avoid having multiple identical copies of directory trees all taking up space on the backup volume). undo

curprev 20:5620:56, 12 January 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,198 bytes −49 →In non-Unix systems: SMB is a remote file access protocol, like NFS; they export file identifiers because some of the file systems they export have hem. (NFS is more inode-number-oriented than SMB; SMB is more path and file-handle oriented.) undo
curprev 20:4920:49, 12 January 2025 2003:ed:f7ff:31b8:feb5:e955:da89:49ba talk 21,247 bytes +18 →External links: add the generic Template for Filesystems, because Inodes are present in many Filesystems and this Article is linked rom that Template undo

curprev 13:2713:27, 24 December 2024 Frap talk contribs m 21,229 bytes +4 →In non-Unix systems: add link undo

curprev 12:2312:23, 15 December 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 21,225 bytes +43 Added date. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Unix file system technology | #UCB_Category 29/37 undo

curprev 22:3222:32, 26 September 2023 Citation bot talk contribs 21,182 bytes −172 Removed parameters. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | #UCB_CommandLine undo

curprev 14:0814:08, 30 June 2023 2a00:23c5:fe56:6c01:15ad:2edb:3cd1:ea2b talk 21,354 bytes +10 →Etymology undo

curprev 06:3106:31, 8 June 2023 Ikan talk contribs m 21,344 bytes −52 Reverted edits by 31.168.178.239 (talk) to last revision by Guy Harris: nonconstructive edits undo Tags: Rollback SWViewer [1.4]
curprev 06:3106:31, 8 June 2023 31.168.178.239 talk 21,396 bytes +52 No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 04:5904:59, 1 June 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,344 bytes +5 →inode number stability and non-Unix file systems: Another place where "device" is inaccurate, especially with newer file systems with multiple file systems per drive/partition. undo
curprev 04:5704:57, 1 June 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,339 bytes −7 →Potential for device inode exhaustion and solutions: "device" isn't needed; a single device, whether it's a physical disk/SSD or a partition of a disk or SSD, may have multiple file systems within it (for some file systems a single allocation pool of blocks can serve multiple file systems in the sense of "root directory and hierarchy of directories and files under it"). undo
curprev 04:5204:52, 1 June 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,346 bytes −48 →Potential for device inode exhaustion and solutions: Remove the list of file systems with dynamic inode allocation, as we already talk about that in an earlier section. undo
curprev 04:5004:50, 1 June 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,394 bytes +106 →Details: Put the sentence about "stat data" after the sentence that mentions the information that nodes store about files and directories, as they are talking about the same thing. Mention the table of nodes before the paragraphs about how that table is stored. Add JFS and XFS to the list of file systems without a fixed-size inode table. undo

curprev 21:3721:37, 31 May 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,288 bytes +3 →Potential for device inode exhaustion and solutions: Use "such as" for a list of two examples. undo
curprev 21:2721:27, 31 May 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,285 bytes −352 →Potential for device inode exhaustion and solutions: Extents are *not* an alternative to a fixed-size inode table; they are neither necessary nor sufficient to provide dynamic inode allocation. Just speak of dynamic inode allocation. (This list needs more file system types.) undo
curprev 21:2421:24, 31 May 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,637 bytes −280 →Potential for device inode exhaustion and solutions: Let's not commit to how many FSes have a fixed-size inode table allocated at mkfs/newfs time and how many don't. Improve the explanation of "running out of nodes". Get rid of a quota-related reference, as quota limitations are separate from space limitations. (Further cleanup is needed here.) Mail Server redirects to message transfer agent, which does not necessarily store many messages. undo
curprev 21:0021:00, 31 May 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,917 bytes +8 →inode number conversion and file directory path retrieval: That's not limited to SVR4 or Linux. Heck, macOS has a F_GETPATH fcntl() that returns the path name of the file to which the FD refers. Furthermore, it's not that it makes it *possible* to get the current directory's path - that was possible on ancient UN*Xes - it just speeds it up. undo

curprev 10:5110:51, 24 May 2023 WikiCleanerBot talk contribs m 21,909 bytes −15 v2.05b - Bot T20 CW#61 - Fix errors for CW project (Reference before punctuation - Link equal to linktext) undo Tag: WPCleaner

curprev 04:3704:37, 13 May 2023 Bender the Bot talk contribs m 15,081 bytes +1 →top: HTTP to HTTPS for Wayback Machine, replaced: http://web.archive.org/ → https://web.archive.org/ undo Tag: AWB

curprev 06:3106:31, 24 April 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 15,080 bytes +176 linux-faqs.inf now sends you to a casino site; use the Wayback Machine. undo

curprev 01:1201:12, 14 April 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 14,904 bytes +159 →Etymology: Use {{cite mailing list}} for a mailing-list message. undo

curprev 18:1018:10, 27 February 2023 Rkieferbaum talk contribs m 14,789 bytes −23 v2.05 - Fix errors for CW project (Link equal to linktext) undo Tag: WPCleaner

curprev 17:1917:19, 15 February 2023 46.114.104.39 talk 14,812 bytes 0 Fix structure so that "older filesystems" gets more clear undo

curprev 19:3419:34, 14 June 2022 Dexxor talk contribs m 14,812 bytes −26 Undid revision 1093101613 by 156.38.52.158 (talk) undo Tag: Undo
curprev 15:1415:14, 14 June 2022 156.38.52.158 talk 14,838 bytes +26 5618761711 undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 04:1304:13, 1 April 2022 TechnicalEditorVicda talk contribs m 14,812 bytes +1 →Implications: The word characteristics was misspelled. (missing the last t) undo

curprev 04:4304:43, 6 March 2022 Editor8778 talk contribs m 14,811 bytes −52 No edit summary undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit

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