From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shweta saxena Subject: Storing inode block device information in struct sb_info Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:26:13 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:40844 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751556Ab1INA0O (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:26:14 -0400 Received: by eyx24 with SMTP id 24so726599eyx.19 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I am trying to separate metadata from data and mount it seperately on a block device.I have an idea abt how to separate it , a) Parsing a new inode device mount point b) Storing inode block device information in struct sb_info I had some doubts and confusions related to storing the inode block device information in struct ext4_sb_info. I am not sure about how to go about doing it. I guess that it can be done by mounting the block device in the VFS first and then storing it in struct ext4_sb_info in ext4.h header file. Any help would be really appreciated.