From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:31:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903103139.GB29762@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BE5C14.3000105@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Hello, all.
> For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some
> type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or preparation for OS
> booting (e.g. in FAT put IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS at the begining of the
> root directory). While theese functions are quite specific to FS
> sometimes are important to implement.
What would be the purpose of that? Please describe a use case.
> [...]. So I intend to implement a call "swapfso" (FSO=File System
> Object) at least for fat and ext2.
Do you mean a filesystem write that swaps two file references?
--
Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-03 9:42 [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems phcoder
2008-09-03 10:31 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-09-03 12:25 ` phcoder
2008-09-04 19:26 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-04 21:27 ` phcoder
2008-09-05 9:56 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-07 0:11 ` phcoder
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