In the inode operations functions lookup() and rename(): struct dentry * (*lookup)(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd); int (*rename)(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_entry); ... is the fact that we pass in the inode superfluous? i.e., it looks like in all cases one can obtain the inode by looking at dentry->d_parent. Or am I missing something? Thanks, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html