OS (a) [ 5 Points ] What is an inode? (b) [ 5 Points ] How does a soft link get implemented via an inode? Solution A)Just imagine when you wil read answer so that you can easily undastand what your doing. Inode is a datastructure. Inodes are used to represent object of filesystem,we can include various things like file or directory.each inode stores the attributes and disk block locations of the filesystem objects data. File system object attributes may include manipulation metadata for ex change,access,modifytime. As well as owner and permission data for ex.gruop id userid,permission. Directories are lists of names assigned to inodes.the directory contain an entry for itself,its parent,and each of its children. B)softlink is a symbolic link and that is nickname for anyfile that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative pathand that affect pathname resolution. symbolic links were already present in minicomputer operating system from dec and data general rdos.today they are supported by the posix operating system standard ,most unic like os such as free bsdlinux,and mac os x and windiws os suvh as windows 95 winvista win7 and ro some degree in windows 2000 and winxp in the form of shortcut files. .