Practice mode Operating Systems

Which of these is NOT stored in a UNIX/Linux inode?

Correct answer D. The file's name

Explanation

An inode holds a file's metadata: type and permissions, owner and group IDs, size, timestamps, link count and the locations of its data blocks. The name is not in the inode; it lives in directory entries that map names to inode numbers. That is why one file can have several hard-link names, all pointing to the same inode.

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