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From: npl@cbnewsi.att.com (nickolas.landsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: inode 1
Keywords: inode 1
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.230014.27674@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:00:14 GMT
References: <2383@beguine.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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If memory serves correctly, the first version of Unix I worked with
(V5) used inode 1 for the root inode of mounted file systems.  Somewhere
in the time frame of 1978 or so, the root inode was redefined as 2
and inode 1 was "reserved for future use."  (The future has not yet
arrived, I guess.)  Can anyone with a better memory pin down exactly
which version of Unix changed the magic 1 to a magic 2?

Nick Landsberg