struct inode (2)

• • address_space *i_mapping – pagecache operations
  • struct pipe_inode_info *i_pipe – inode information specific to pipes
  • struct block_device *i_bdev – inode information specific to block device files
  • struct cdev i_cdev – inode information specific to character device files
  • i_generation – generation (version) of inode, used mainly for NFS exporting
  • i_private – private data for filesystem kept with inode