From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: "Diego ." <eljedi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BeFS
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:05:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721050510.GC3370@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530d01580807180110n3677a150y6b55e2050711d34@mail.gmail.com>
On Jul 18, 2008 10:10 +0200, Diego . wrote:
> Can you point me to some web where i can get updated info about
> fsdevel in general? ( kernel apis.. etc..)
Reading linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt is a good start, along
with other documents there. Maybe kernenewbies has some wiki pages also.
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 17, 2008 13:55 +0200, Diego . wrote:
> >> My question comes when i tried to finish befs port ( write mode ) on
> >> the kernel sources..
> >> How can i make the extensible attributes and live queries available to
> >> linux user/programs?
> >>
> >> Is there some way to register this services?
> >
> > I'm guessing that xattrs (via sys_{get,set,list}xattr(), used by
> > user tools getfattr/setfattr/libattr) will get you much of what you
> > want.
> >
> > In order to notify applications about "live queries" you may want to
> > look at the dnotify or inotify mechanisms, having an application
> > get a notification on a "virtual search" file, or similar.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 11:55 BeFS Diego .
2008-07-17 12:30 ` BeFS Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-17 21:12 ` BeFS Andreas Dilger
2008-07-18 8:10 ` BeFS Diego .
2008-07-18 13:43 ` BeFS Leandro Dorileo
2008-07-21 5:05 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2008-07-21 6:51 ` BeFS Diego .
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