[TUHS] inode - does it have a meaning?

[Jon Forrest via TUHS]

On 10/4/25 1:38 PM, David Barto via TUHS wrote:
> In a blog post today I read:
> 
> 	In most modern file systems, those data structures are
> 	known as inodes, and their numbers are inode numbers,
> 	sometimes shortened to inodes. The term is thought
> 	to be a contraction of index node, which certainly
> 	makes sense, but is lost in the mists of time.

The "provably secure" version of Unix, called KSOS, used
"jnodes" instead of "inodes". I think this was because the
main architect of KSOS was Jay McCauley, and he named them
after himself.

Jon