struct inode

• Keeps information about inode in memory

• Important fields (struct inode)

• • i_ino – unique inode number (inode identifier)
  • i_nlink – number of references to inode on disk (hardlinks) and by processes
  • struct inode_operations *i_op – filesystem-specific inode operations
  • struct file_operations *i_fop – default filesystem-specific file operations
  • struct super_block *i_sb – pointer to super_block of filesystem