FS / inode / vnode refresher

Tue Jun 15 23:15:24 PDT 2004

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:42:15PM -0700, richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
> A vnode is an inode with a hostid prepended.
> 
> But you should only need to know this if you are writing NFS code. 
> Otherwise it's overkill. It has absolutely no bearing upon your capacity 
> to administer NFS. There is no nfsck(8) (cute, eh?). Where the rubber 
> meets the road, it's all inodes.

The place I'm interviewing at, I'm not sure they know what 'overkill' is,
in terms of what you know :)

-roy