Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Insufficient info.
> Roger.
>
try 2:
i need to find what physical blocks a file occuiped on disk.
so i have to find the file's inode and pass it as an argument to the vfs method
- bmap.
only one problem - how can i get the file in-core inode ?
hope this is clearer
/gabriel
>
> BenHanokh Gabriel wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > how can i get pointer to a file inode ?
> >
> > should i use namei or that it is better to have a user-space app opening
> > the file and passing me the fd( using ioctl ) ?
> >
> > i saw that kernel code like sys_read is calling fget with the user space
> > fd, but i couldn't link with fget
> >
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