ILOOKUP(9)                                The Linux VFS                                ILOOKUP(9)



NAME
       ilookup - search for an inode in the inode cache

SYNOPSIS
       struct inode * ilookup(struct super_block * sb, unsigned long ino);

ARGUMENTS
       sb
           super block of file system to search

       ino
           inode number to search for

DESCRIPTION
       Search for the inode ino in the inode cache, and if the inode is in the cache, the inode
       is returned with an incremented reference count.

COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.                 January 2017                                ILOOKUP(9)