> I came across the member i_ino in the inode structure. > This is supposed to store the information about the file > system of the file which owns this inode. Where did you read that? That is not true. i_ino is the inode number of the file. It doesn't tell anything about the filesystem type. -Ravi. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/