Re: Copying Data Blocks

Manish Katiyar
2009-01-06T13:26:19Z

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to read data blocks from one inode
> and copy it to other inode.
>
> I mean to copy data from data blocks associated with one inode
> to the data blocks associated with other inode.

Copying 4K chunk of data itself is a costly operation. and depending
on the size of your donor inode this can be huge . Why do you want to
do that ? Do you know the inode of the donor inode ?

thanks -
Manish
>
> Is that possible in kernel space.?
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