[TUHS] Quick Question: Early Filesystems and Name/Metadata Separation?

[Noel Chiappa via TUHS]

    > From: George Michaelson

    > Which is not the contents of the file. It's data about the file.
    > It's attributes, such as creation and modification times, its owner
    > and group, pointers to extended attributes.
    > Its... metadata.

You said:

    >>> Is the return of a stat() call from the directory block not file
    >>> "metadata"?

I replied:

    >> stat() mostly return information from the inode.

Note the "from the directory block".

	Noel
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