Inodes
https://www.howtogeek.com/465350/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-inodes-on-linux/ https://metebalci.com/blog/a-minimum-complete-tutorial-of-linux-ext4-file-system/
inodes are a data structure of
POSIX Outlines a series of standards that govern various core operating system components and interfaces
Standardised using... https://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html
The methods and datastructures that allow for organising and accessing data on disk.
Filesystem-like structures exist... https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4DiskLayout
Journaling File System developed for Linux
Replaces ext3
Ext systems (like ext4) have a superblock data structure...
Represents one or more blocks of data that make up a file.
The disk Blocks that...
Represents a structure containing zero or more Files and other directories
In a tree-like File System...POSIX Standard
File System
ext4
Files
Directory
The inode stores metadata such as access permissions and modified/created dates, allocated disk blocks
inodes are stored in an inode table, which are referenced from the Block Group Descriptor Table
An inode with no
Hard Links Multiple File descriptors that point to the same data location on disk; this means accessing...Hard Links
File Areas
Files
Represents one or more blocks of data that make up a file.
The disk Blocks that... Journaling File System for Linux
Replaced by ext4...Files
ext3
In later systems (e.g.
ext4 https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4DiskLayout
Journaling File System developed for Linux
Replaces ext3
Ext systems (like ext4) have a superblock data structure... A contiguous area of storage, reserved for a File, recorded against an inode using the...ext4
Extents