On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:53:11AM -0700, Iyer, Rahul wrote: > Yep! I just tried it and ran into the very same thing. It works if > compiled into the kernel. I was going to bring this up.. the problem > AFAIK is that inode_lock doesn't have an EXPORT_SYMBOL(). It's defined > in fs/inode.c, line 82. Do you really need the inode_lock? --b.