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Discuss the use of inodes for storing data on a disk. Is the linking process reliable enough?

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This solution examines in brief the importance of inodes for storing data on a disk, and also takes into account the reliability factor.

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An inode is a data structure on a file system on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that stores all the information about a file except its name and its actual data. When a file is created, it is assigned both a name and an inode number, which is an integer that is unique within the file system. Both the file names and their corresponding inode numbers are stored as entries in the directory that appears to the user to contain the files. That is, the directory associates file names with inodes (Bellevuelinux.org, 2005).

In UNIX files are streams of un-interpreted bytes. A file is named by its system identifier which is an index into a table of file header records known as inodes. The inode contains information about the ...

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