struct dentry

• Represents directory entry (file name in directory) which points to inode

• Dentries are only cache and not synced to disk

• Important fields (struct dentry)

• • struct inode *d_inode – inode associated with dentry
  • struct dentry *d_parent – dentry of parent directory
  • struct qstr d_name – file name in dentry
  • struct dentry_operations *d_op - operations