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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion p8-read-fs.md
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`fs.c` maintains a cache of inodes. In a fuller OS, some directories such as the
root will be read again and again so we don't want to read them back from disk
every time. When number of references to in-memory copy of inode become zero,
every time. When the number of references to an in-memory copy of the inode becomes zero,
they can be evicted from the cache. This number of references is not to be
confused with `dinode.nlink` which is the number of links to this `inode` in the
file system. Evicting an in-memory `inode` from `icache` does not delete its disk
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