Frank.Mcpherson@samba.acs.unc.edu (Frank Mcpherson) (01/25/91)
Not knowing a lot about the implementation of inodes, I can only guess as to why inode 1 is empty and unnamed. Sometimes, when people implement a linked list or other related data types, they have a dummy header node to the list. What this does is eliminate the need of handling certain special cases when adding or deleting to or from the front of the list, which produces more easily readable source code. The overhead of one additional node is negligible. Maybe that's why the first inode is unamed and empty... -- Frank McPherson INTERNET:fmcphers@vttcf.cc.vt.edu