Re: help with ext3 reserved inode

[SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Donato,
Would you mind sharing the code?

It would be better to figure out and nail down the exact problem.


On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Donato Capitella<d.capitella@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I need some help with a patch to the ext3 filesystem I'm developing. I'm
> completelly new to kernel programming and I need to understand
> practically how to use one of the ext3 reserved inode for storing a log.
>
> I thought it would be just as easy as getting the inode with the
> ext3_iget() function, but it doesn't seem to be the case. For example,
> if I try to load the third reserved inode like this :
>
> inode = ext3_iget(sb, 3);
>
> ext3_iget() fails somehow and crashes the process with a NULL pointer
> reference. What am I missing here? How do you use a reserved inode? Can
> anybody point to some documentation or project that uses reserved
> inodes?
>
> I'm really stuck :(
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Donato Capitella
>
>
>
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