SYS V - What is Inode 1 ?

[mike at bria.UUCP]

In article <1991Jan19.123830.8859 at micromuse.co.uk> micromuse!peter (Peter Galbavy) writes:
>For a while now I have been trying to find out - for no good reason -
>what inode 1 is reserved for in ATT SYSV. Whether the same is true for
>other UN*X's I do not know, but whatever V.2 or V.3 release I have
>seen, the root directory of a file system is always (as far as I have
>seen) inode 2.
>
>I remember finding a quote along the lines of 'inode 1 is reserved for
>future use' in a manual somewhere.

I've noticed this too ... my manual claims "The first inode (i-node 1) on
every filesystem is unnamed and unused".

I wonder why ...
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