From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Simple inode question (ext2/3)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:05:15 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:32:53PM +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> At this stage, it is just for practice. I'm building a kernel module
> that communicates with user space using a chardev and is able to
> take requests in order to read or change specific inode data. Right
> now, I'm just trying to dump the whole inode table.

Yeah, but this is a really bad idea.   Practice for *what*?

This isn't for some college class, is it?   

						- Ted