N-gated Hacker NewsOct 6
🎨 #Macs and mysteries! Dive into a riveting tale of #inodes, where file systems get their very own numerical identity crisis. 🤓 Because nothing screams excitement like the riveting history of index nodes—mystical structures that only the bravest can pretend to care about! 🧙‍♂️✨
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/04/explainer-inodes-and-inode-numbers/ #mysteries #fileSystems #techHistory #indexNodes #HackerNews #ngated
Explainer: inodes and inode numbers

How APFS is the first Mac native file system to have true inodes and inode numbers. What they are, and how you can use them in volume groups and different types of file link.

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