Re: [BK-PATCH-2.5] Introduce new VFS inode cache lookup function

[Jan Harkes]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:00:04PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Without such icache lookup functionality it is impossible to write inodes
> via the VM page dirty code paths AFAICS. - The only alternative I can see
> is to duplicate the whole icache private to NTFS so that I can perform the
> lookup internally but I think that is silly considering the VFS already
> keeps the inode cache...

Wouldn't you be able to use something like the following code to do ilookup?

Jan

static int dont_set(struct inode *inode, void *data)
{
	return -1;
}

struct inode *ilookup(struct super_block *sb, struct list_head *head,
		      int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), void *data)
{
	return iget5_locked(sb, head, test, dont_set, data);
}