1. ► A file system only has a fixed number of inodes which are configured at each reboot.

2. ► It is possible to control the number of system calls in ANSI C IO libraries.

3. ► Directory routines in the file dirent.h have routines for recursively accessing directories.

4. ► sync does not need any arguments.

5. ► File locks are mandatory on a GNU/Linux system.

6. ► Inode stands for: Interface Nodes.

7. ► access call returns a -1 if the permission check succeeds.

8. ► stat command reports total number of hard links to a file.

9. ► Soft links reference the name of the file or directory.

10. ► ANSI C IO routines automatically deal with concurrency.

11. ► stat is a system call which is used to retrieve information about a file.

12. ► open call returns -1 on error.

13. ► Only the superuser can view /var/log/messages.

14. ► fdatasync and fsync do exactly the same thing.

15. ► lseek cannot absolutely position a file pointer.

16. ► Only a process started by the superuser can write to the logging daemon.

17. ► ANSI C IO libraries are unbuffered.

18. ► A file cannot be deleted unless all its hard links have been deleted.

19. ► fcntl is used to get as well as set file attributes.

20. ► Poll is much more efficient than select and should be the default choice.