From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Kapfl-0004dF-4t for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:33:13 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kapfj-0004cj-6P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:33:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kapfi-0004c8-9P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:33:10 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47085 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kapfh-0004c1-5v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:33:09 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:40534) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kapfh-0007dy-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:33:09 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KapVR-00020r-7U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:22:33 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KapeF-0007pg-Ho for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:31:39 +0200 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:31:39 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080903103139.GB29762@thorin> References: <48BE5C14.3000105@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48BE5C14.3000105@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:33:11 -0000 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 The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."