From: "Diego ." <eljedi@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BeFS
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:10:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530d01580807180110n3677a150y6b55e2050711d34@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717211242.GC6239@webber.adilger.int>
Wow, thanks andreas!
Can you point me to some web where i can get updated info about
fsdevel in general? ( kernel apis.. etc..)
thanks!!
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2008 13:55 +0200, Diego . wrote:
>> My question comes when i tried to finish befs port ( write mode ) on
>> the kernel sources..
>> How can i make the extensible attributes and live queries available to
>> linux user/programs?
>>
>> Is there some way to register this services?
>
> I'm guessing that xattrs (via sys_{get,set,list}xattr(), used by
> user tools getfattr/setfattr/libattr) will get you much of what you
> want.
>
> In order to notify applications about "live queries" you may want to
> look at the dnotify or inotify mechanisms, having an application
> get a notification on a "virtual search" file, or similar.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 11:55 BeFS Diego .
2008-07-17 12:30 ` BeFS Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-17 21:12 ` BeFS Andreas Dilger
2008-07-18 8:10 ` Diego . [this message]
2008-07-18 13:43 ` BeFS Leandro Dorileo
2008-07-21 5:05 ` BeFS Andreas Dilger
2008-07-21 6:51 ` BeFS Diego .
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