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## 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.

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