On Sunday 13 January 2008, Manish Katiyar wrote:
> Hi friends,
>

Hi Manish,

> 1) When is d_instantiate needed. Is it required always ?? . As far as
> i understand it attaches the inode to the dentry object and may not be
> needed always.

AFAIK you need to call insert_inode_hash for every inode you create and 
d_instantiate whenever you create a new file or directory.

> 2) Once I have got the new inode * by a call to new_inode, how do I
> fill my file system specific data.. ie... i_private member is
> initialised as NULL.
>      Should I allocate memory for my inode and set i_private to it
> ??........
>

Yes.

Regards,
tavi


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