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Inodes and the Linux filesystem

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Enable SysAdmin; By Tyler Carrigan
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Linux filesystems are complicated things to understand, especially when you get down into the weeds of data and metadata. Inodes are behind the scenes working hard...... Let's take a look at what precisely an inode is and what it does for us. What's so important about inodes that I need to keep an eye on them? Find out in this introductory article.

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