What is the function of inodes in a Linux filesystem?

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inodes provide metadata about specific files via a 1:1 pairing - Inodes describe things like file size on disk, permissions, location, etc. Effectively think of it as storing the data that stat reads.

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logical index to the file in a file system, includes meta data about the file..

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