From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Avinash Ramanath <avinashr@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Zeroing data blocks
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:42:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154799834.3054.93.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abcd72470608051013s42ba14e1g8c3289a3e551c7ca@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 10:13 -0700, Avinash Ramanath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do this at the filesystem-level not in user-space.
> I have a stackable-filesystem that runs as a layer on top of the
> existing filesystem (with all the function pointers mapped to the
> corresponding base filesystem function pointers, and other suitable
> adjustments).
> So yes I have access to the filesystem.
> But the question is how can I access those particular data-blocks?
I think you misunderstood: You need to do this in the filesystem layer
that allocates and tracks the blocks. You really can't do it outside
that...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-05 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1152435182.3255.39.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
2006-08-05 7:55 ` Avinash Ramanath
2006-08-05 15:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-05 17:13 ` Avinash Ramanath
2006-08-05 17:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-05 20:30 ` Ian Stirling
2006-07-09 1:19 Avinash Ramanath
2006-07-09 18:55 ` Dave Boutcher
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