From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264000AbTDWLhK (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:37:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264002AbTDWLhK (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:37:10 -0400 Received: from mxout3.netvision.net.il ([194.90.9.24]:3003 "EHLO mxout3.netvision.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264000AbTDWLhJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:37:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:58:21 +0200 From: Nir Livni Subject: Re: FileSystem Filter Driver To: linux-kernel Message-id: <000601c30998$4ab21690$4ee1db3e@pinguin> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <000501c30983$1ffb8950$ade1db3e@pinguin> <1051092516.1896.7.camel@abhilinux.cygnet.co.in> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:58, Nir Livni wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am looking for information about writing a FileSystem Filter Driver on RH. > > Any documentation or source code samples whould be appreciated. > > > > What's a FileSystem Filter Driver? > A FileSystem Filter Driver, is a driver the is located above the file system driver, and filters calls. It may pass the call to the filesystem as is, maybe change it, or fail it ("access denied" for example). It is actually something that exists on Windows file systems, but I'm sure it can also be done on Linux.