Hi People, > > Looks like I managed to get the blocks that belong to > this particular inode. > But when I try to zero b_data, the data still appears > in the hard disk device > (verified using hexdump). > Any idea why? It's been troubling me for days. > When you change anything in the memory region pointed by b_data field of struct buffer_head, it just makes changes in memory (in buffer cache, to be precise). Did you commit these changes to disk by writing modified data of this block? Nitin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
