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SubjectRe: invalidate inode given block?


On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

>
> Is there a simple way of telling a file system that it needs to revise
> its opinion about an inode? I plan to sneak a change underneath on
> disk, find the inode it belongs to, and invalidate it.
>
> Is that possible? I've been looking around fs/block_dev.c and it seems
> to do related stuff, but I'm hoping someone can short circuit my
> reading experience.

Details, please. Change what? Contents of the file, inode type, ownership,
other metadata? Answer really depends.


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