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 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- Regards, Sandeep. “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.” -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
