Re: BeFS

["Diego ." <eljedi@gmail.com>]

Hi!

thanks for all the info!!
I'm gonna start reading now!

thanks again,
Diego.



On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2008  10:10 +0200, Diego . wrote:
>> Can you point me to some web where i can get updated info about
>> fsdevel in general? ( kernel apis.. etc..)
>
> Reading linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt is a good start, along
> with other documents there.  Maybe kernenewbies has some wiki pages also.
>
>> 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.
>
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