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inodes are by the way a great topic to talk about in a job interview. People working with unix based systems should know about them, or at least encountered the
by dvcrn 10y ago
inodes are by the way a great topic to talk about in a job interview. People working with unix based systems should know about them, or at least encountered them once in their career.
Another good one that even less people know about is the sticky bit.
- danieldk 10y agoIndeed. One of the types questions were people typically bomb (this is also one in Google's telephone interview arsenal): where is a filename stored? People who have the vague notion of 'an inode stores metadata' will usually answer this incorrectly.