inode-待補－西西部落格@痞客邦

inode在kernel中是一個非常重要的struct

定義在 linux/fs.h，以下分別來看這些結構內的元素分別代表的意義

struct inode
{
    struct hlist_node    i_hash;
    struct list_head    i_list;
    struct list_head    i_sb_list;
    struct list_head    i_dentry;
    unsigned long        i_ino;
    atomic_t        i_count;
    unsigned int        i_nlink;
    uid_t            i_uid;
    gid_t            i_gid;
    dev_t            i_rdev;
    u64            i_version;
    loff_t            i_size; // inode代表的檔案大小
#ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED
    seqcount_t        i_size_seqcount;
#endif
    struct timespec        i_atime;
    struct timespec        i_mtime;
    struct timespec        i_ctime;
    unsigned int        i_blkbits;
    blkcnt_t        i_blocks; // 檔案的block數量:一個block為512 byte
    unsigned short          i_bytes;
    umode_t            i_mode;
    spinlock_t        i_lock;    /* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */
    struct mutex        i_mutex;
    struct rw_semaphore    i_alloc_sem;
    const struct inode_operations    *i_op;
    const struct file_operations    *i_fop;    /* former ->i_op->default_file_ops */
    struct super_block    *i_sb;
    struct file_lock    *i_flock;
    struct address_space    *i_mapping;
    struct address_space    i_data;
#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
    struct dquot        *i_dquot[MAXQUOTAS];
#endif
    struct list_head    i_devices;
    union {
        struct pipe_inode_info    *i_pipe;
        struct block_device    *i_bdev;
        struct cdev        *i_cdev;
    };
    int            i_cindex;

    __u32            i_generation;

#ifdef CONFIG_DNOTIFY
    unsigned long        i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
    struct dnotify_struct    *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
    struct list_head    inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
    struct mutex        inotify_mutex;    /* protects the watches list */
#endif

    unsigned long        i_state;
    unsigned long        dirtied_when;    /* jiffies of first dirtying */

    unsigned int        i_flags;

    atomic_t        i_writecount;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
    void            *i_security;
#endif
    void            *i_private; /* fs or device private pointer */
};