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Ch. 40, page 4 (section 40.3) typo in inode term explanation #102

Open andrewtchan opened 5 months ago

andrewtchan commented 5 months ago

First paragraph of 40.3:

One of the most important on-disk structures of a file system is the inode; virtually all file systems have a structure similar to this. The name inode is short for index node, the historical name given to it in UNIX [RT74] and possibly earlier systems, used because these nodes were originally arranged in an array, and the array indexed into when accessing a particular inode.

I believe this should be "... and the array was indexed into when accessing a particular inode".

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andrewtchan commented 5 months ago

Also -- if this ends up getting accepted, could I be listed as "Andrew Thomas Chan" please?