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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christof <mail@pop2wap.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: some ext2-understanding problems (page cache etc.)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:29:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040430202915.GB23131@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4091AA0F.8050700@pop2wap.net>

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:21:19AM +0200, Christof wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not a kernel guru, but my task is to extract some ext2-code from the 
> kernel into user space for a scientific project/experiment. I've 
> "ported" a lot of code by now but now I am stuck.
> I wanted to bypass the page cache and disk buffer and have all writes 
> and reads directly in memory. I don't want to get into details, but 
> imagine I have an image of an ext2-filesystem in memory and want to 
> access it in user space but with the same interface as it would be in 
> the kernel.

You're probably better off using the the libext2fs library that is
part of e2fsprogs, since it is already userspace code.  

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-30 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-30  1:21 some ext2-understanding problems (page cache etc.) Christof
2004-04-30 20:29 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]

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