XFS currently has to deal with two separate inode lifecycles which makes for complexity in inode lookups and reclaim. We also have the problem of not always having a linux inode around when it might ...

I installed freeBSD in vmware just to play around with BSD. I was trying to install apache and my / partition ran out of inodes. There's still 30% free space on the 1.2gigs I allocated, but I'm out of ...

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It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

The ls command is probably one of the first commands that anyone using Unix learns, but it only shows a small portion of the information that is available with the stat command. The stat command pulls ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

When trying to create a file on Linux, you get the error 'No space left on device.' However, when you check the free space, there is still plenty left.In such cases, you might be tempted to conclude ...