(Answer) (Category) SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ : (Category) Media/Device Information, Filesystems, and Disks :
What's an inode?
An inode is also a data structure that holds the important information about a file that we see when we do an ls -l, like: 

     Mode -- (filetype / permissions)
     Link count  -- the number of hard links to a file
     The owner's UID
     The file's GID
     The size in bytes
     The atime, mtime, ctime  -- file modification times
     The addresses of the data blocks that hold the file.

In some cases there are no data block addresses and only major and minor numbers as is the case with device files in /dev.

For each and every file there exists at least one inode.
Also look at General Information -- > What is an Inode.

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