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Asked: 2026-05-20T02:25:16+00:00

I believe there are two types of inodes – on-disk and in-core inode (‘struct

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I believe there are two types of inodes – on-disk and in-core inode (‘struct inode’ in fs.h). An on-disk inode is based on filesystem implementation. I am trying to understand the underlying concept and have a few questions –

  • Can someone point me to the code (or walk through the steps) where the on-disk inode is read/copied to the in-core inode? i.e., when in-core inode is created it has to be from an on-disk inode. So, how does this happen?
  • Why doesn’t the in-core inode store a pointer to the on-disk inode?
  • If there is a modification to the in-core inode then how is it propagated to the on-disk inode? Any pointers to the code or code-flow would be helpful.

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    In core inode is getting copied from disk inode in algorithm ialloc after allocating a free inode for the newly assigned disk inode using algorithm iget.

    Kernel set flags to indicate discrepancies between the disk inode and in-core copy.When Kernel need to record changes to the file or to the inode, it writes the in-core copy of the inode to the disk after examining these flags.

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