How do inodes work?

[Marc G. Fournier]

I'm fsck'ng a drive right now, and right now its up to:

ZERO LENGTH DIR I=8913556  OWNER=root MODE=40755
SIZE=0 MTIME=May 10 18:36 2004
CLEAR? yes

but according to df -i:

# df -i /dev/da0s1h
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1h 119837208 101467120 8783112    92% 7460715 7587989   50%

so I take there are 'gaps' in the inode list?  it doesn't re-use freed
ones but keeps climbing until maybe it rolls around or something?

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