From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: using reiserfs as a DB
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:44:28 +0400
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Hello!

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:26:19PM +0100, Richard Emslie wrote:

> > The instance of what is a raw access to files and directories you can
> > see on http://reiserfs.linux.kiev.ua/progsreiserfs-0.3.0.tar.gz in
> > files: object.c, file.c, dir.c
> Sorry for sounding dumb but am I right in saying this code does not go
> near reiserfs kernel code.  ie it is directly accessing at block level?

Yes.

> Is this reiserfs-raw?  If so how does this benfit from the reiserfs's
> internal tree?

No. Reiserfs-raw is a different thing. In reiserfs-raw you actually mount your
fs, and then access the data through ioctls.

> If this has nothing to do with reiserfs-raw, how can one access a
> partition when mounted raw?  ie open(pathname) doesn't make much sense.

You can do it through ioctl. Nikita should know the details.

Bye,
    Oleg