On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:14:05AM +0530, Rajat Sharma wrote: > Hi Theodore, > > In both the operations, inodes refer to parent directory while dentry refers > to child. Hope this clarifies. Sure, but we can get to the parent directory's inode from the dentry via: dentry->d_parent->d_inode ... can we not? - 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