Re: Access content of file via inodes

["nitin ahuja" <nitin2ahuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

>
> How do I access/read the content of the files via                  > using inodes
> or blocks that belong to the inode, at sys_link and    > vfs_link layer?
> I used bmap to access the blocks that belongs to the   > inodes, but
> getting access to the buffer_head's b_data doesn't      > seem to help.
>

In struct buffer_head, b_data points to memory region of size 4K containing data of the desired block. So you can memcpy it to your buffer.

Nitin


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