From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Subject: Re: Simple inode question (ext2/3)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:06:54 -0700
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On Feb 24, 2009  21:48 +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote:
>> This isn't for some college class, is it?
>
> No, it is not. Where would you get that idea from?

Because there are lots of questions like this from university
students that would rather have the mailing list do their
homework for them.

> To be very honest with you, I don't see why you are wasting your time
> questioning me about these things instead of simply answering what I've
> asked or saying something like: "Have a look at brelse() and the inode
> bitmap manipulation routines used in ialloc.c".
>
> I'm beginning to believe you didn't know the answers to my questions,
> Ted. How sad.

How sad that you have just been rude one of the main ext2/3/4 developers,
e2fsprogs maintainer, and one of the most senior Linux kernel developers.

I would suggest that you look at what ext2_iget->ext2_get_inode() is doing.
You will have a hard time getting much help from the list unless you change
your attitude.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.