Re: fault when using iget() on XFS file system (2.6.9)

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Scott Baker wrote:
> I'm working on a kernel module that needs to perform an iget() on an
> inode that lies in the XFS file system.

Explain why you think you need iget().  It's almost certainly a Bad Idea(tm) -
code outside of filesystem has no business calling it.

Without more context there's no way anyone can help.  What does that
module attempt to do?
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