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## Please be more specific....

  Forum: Filesystems
  Re: Partition? (Wilfredo Lugo Beauchamp)
  Keywords: ext2 filesystem
  Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 04:28:53 GMT
  From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

It's not clear from your question whether you are trying to write a user mode application, or trying to write kernel code. Parts of your question imply that you're writing user-mode code, but iget() is a kernel routine which isn't available to user-mode programs. Why don't you be a bit more specific about what you're trying to do, and perhaps we can help you out. Assuming that you're writing a user-mode application, are you trying to read the filesystem directly using the device file, and using direct I/O to the device? Or are you trying to get some information from a filesystem that is already mounted? Why do you need to read an inode? What are you trying to do with it?