In regards formal descriptions of inodes and the rest of the Unix filesystem there are many such descriptions available. The classic book is Maurice Bach I believe the title is _The Unix Operating System_ but I can't seem to find my copy at the moment. For a more current view (though inodes are still the basis, the organization of them changes) I highly recommend Sarwar et al, Linux: The Textbook (2002 Addison Wesley). ISBN 0-201-72595-9 . The subject of Chapter 7 is the filesystem. On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Roland Kuhn wrote:
Do you know of a (brief) description of how a inode fs works, somewhere? I come from Dos; I did study how FAT worked in detail, but unix was out of bounds for me at the time, and later I had no occasion to study ext2 or similar. So, although I have some inkling of what an inode is, I really don't know O:-)