From: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
To: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Help on automatic population of directories
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:32:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404CD84B.1090101@watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040306205131.GC17554@vagabond>
Jan Hudec wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:55:09 -0500, Shailabh wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm writing a ram-based filesystem. I want the filesystem to
>>automatically create a few files inside every directory that a user creates.
>>
>>
>
>Why do you want to do it?
>
>One reason to ask that is: The user did not create the files. Should he
>really need to delete them manualy?
>
>
No, I'll need autodelete functionality as well.
>>I'm new to filesystem development and still not completely clear about
>>the relationships between mount points, dentries etc....Any pointers on
>>useful functions would be much appreciated !
>>
>>
>
>It's rather bad unfortunately. There are few files in Documentation
>describing locking scheme and very basic semantics of the methods (it's
>VERY good to have these handy when programming). Other documentation
>tends to be outdated. The source is quite easy to understand, however.
>(Hope you heared of http://lxr.linux.no/source)
>
>
Thanks for the tips. Yes, I've been looking through the sources too.
-- Shailabh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-08 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-05 16:55 Help on automatic population of directories Shailabh
2004-03-06 20:51 ` Jan Hudec
2004-03-08 20:32 ` Shailabh Nagar [this message]
2004-03-09 8:22 ` Jan Hudec
2004-03-08 6:14 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-08 20:38 ` Shailabh Nagar
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