* mode                       -  d,l,c,b  (Directory, Link, Device Files)
     * link count                 -  the number of hard links to the file
     * owner                      -
     * group                      -
     * size in bytes              -
     * time stamps                -  mtime, ctime, atime
     * data block addresses       -  Pointers to the real data

   You can see how an inodes points to a file in a filesystem, just as a
   Table of Contents entry points to a chapter in a book, or a cardfile
   from a card-catalog points to the area of the Library by Dewey number.

      * Each filesystem has one set of inodes like there is one
        card-catalog in each libaray.

      * Inodes are referred to by numbers starting from 2.

      * There has been historically a limit of 64K inodes per
        filesystem, and we had to watch out that we didn't
        create too many files.  Not anymore.

      * You have unlimited inodes on vxfs filesystems.

      * Each file has an inode assigned to it when it is created.

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