Understanding inodes in under 14 minutes

Here we take a tour to make sure that we do truly understand inodes in Linux and what they do and contain. Firstly they do not contain the file name. This is stored separately and the file name is linked via the inode number to the inode. The inode itself contains the metadata about the file: the mode, ownership, size etc. Keeping the filename separate to the file metadata does mean that we can have then hard links, multiple file names that point to the one file by way of the inode.



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