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class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="inode_handling"></a>Inode Handling</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-inode-init-always.html"><span class="phrase">inode_init_always</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 2 perform inode structure intialisation 3 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-drop-nlink.html"><span class="phrase">drop_nlink</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 4 directly drop an inode's link count 5 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-clear-nlink.html"><span class="phrase">clear_nlink</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 6 directly zero an inode's link count 7 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-set-nlink.html"><span class="phrase">set_nlink</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 8 directly set an inode's link count 9 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-inc-nlink.html"><span class="phrase">inc_nlink</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 10 directly increment an inode's link count 11 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-inode-sb-list-add.html"><span class="phrase">inode_sb_list_add</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 12 add inode to the superblock list of inodes 13 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API---insert-inode-hash.html"><span class="phrase">__insert_inode_hash</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 14 hash an inode 15 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API---remove-inode-hash.html"><span class="phrase">__remove_inode_hash</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 16 remove an inode from the hash 17 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-new-inode.html"><span class="phrase">new_inode</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 18 obtain an inode 19 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-unlock-new-inode.html"><span class="phrase">unlock_new_inode</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 20 clear the I_NEW state and wake up any waiters 21 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-lock-two-nondirectories.html"><span class="phrase">lock_two_nondirectories</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 22 take two i_mutexes on non-directory objects 23 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-unlock-two-nondirectories.html"><span class="phrase">unlock_two_nondirectories</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 24 release locks from <code class="function">lock_two_nondirectories</code> 25 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-iget5-locked.html"><span class="phrase">iget5_locked</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 26 obtain an inode from a mounted file system 27 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-iget-locked.html"><span class="phrase">iget_locked</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 28 obtain an inode from a mounted file system 29 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-iunique.html"><span class="phrase">iunique</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 30 get a unique inode number 31 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-ilookup5-nowait.html"><span class="phrase">ilookup5_nowait</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 32 search for an inode in the inode cache 33 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-ilookup5.html"><span class="phrase">ilookup5</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 34 search for an inode in the inode cache 35 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-ilookup.html"><span class="phrase">ilookup</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 36 search for an inode in the inode cache 37 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-find-inode-nowait.html"><span class="phrase">find_inode_nowait</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 38 find an inode in the inode cache 39 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-iput.html"><span class="phrase">iput</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 40 put an inode 41 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-bmap.html"><span class="phrase">bmap</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 42 find a block number in a file 43 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-touch-atime.html"><span class="phrase">touch_atime</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 44 update the access time 45 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-file-update-time.html"><span class="phrase">file_update_time</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 46 update mtime and ctime time 47 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-inode-init-owner.html"><span class="phrase">inode_init_owner</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 48 Init uid,gid,mode for new inode according to posix standards 49 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-inode-owner-or-capable.html"><span class="phrase">inode_owner_or_capable</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 50 check current task permissions to inode 51 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-inode-dio-wait.html"><span class="phrase">inode_dio_wait</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 52 wait for outstanding DIO requests to finish 53 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-make-bad-inode.html"><span class="phrase">make_bad_inode</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 54 mark an inode bad due to an I/O error 55 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-is-bad-inode.html"><span class="phrase">is_bad_inode</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 56 is an inode errored 57 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-iget-failed.html"><span class="phrase">iget_failed</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 58 Mark an under-construction 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