The interviewee's answer to the inode thing is simply wrong. An inode is metadata (or "attributes", sure): it's not an index or an identifier. I think the interviewee is thinking of the inode number, which is a related but different thing. The interviewer was right.
I swear this is about the 20th time in a week I've seen a good comment (the parent) in the gray. Unless I'm imagining things, this has been happening with extremely noticeable increasing frequency. I've held off saying anything about it for days while it keeps happening more and more.
