From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shailabh Nagar Subject: Re: Help on automatic population of directories Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:32:11 -0500 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <404CD84B.1090101@watson.ibm.com> References: <4048B0ED.1010702@watson.ibm.com> <20040306205131.GC17554@vagabond> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:13241 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261185AbUCHUcX (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:32:23 -0500 To: Jan Hudec In-Reply-To: <20040306205131.GC17554@vagabond> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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tends to be outdated.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