How to waste computer memory?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Speaking of the low level, the classic UNIX file system doesn't make use
> of pathnames. Rather, the files are nameless. They are identified by the
> device (= file system) number plus the inode number.

Not entirely fair. A file system has directories in it, which have
names in them referencing other inodes. So while you can get to the
contents of the file given only its inode, but the path names are very
much a part of the file system too.

ChrisA