Hi all,


I am trying to add some cryptographic functionality to ext2 file system for my 
masters project. I am working with kernel 2.4.21



Along with regular files, I intend to encrypt directory contents too. For 
reading I guess the function ext2_get_page in fs/ext2/dir.c is used. Hence I 
can put my decryption routine in that function. Is that correct?



I was trying to look for the routine which writes the dentry on disk, but was 
unable to find it. I found out that the function d_instantiate is used to fill 
in inode information for a dentry, but unable to see when it is written on 
disk. I suppose that I have to encrypt the dentry just before writing on to the 
disk, as if i encrypt it before, other functions using it wont be able to 
access until they decrypt. So please help me with this, that when and where 
shall I encrypt the directory contents.



Thanks and regards,



Vineet

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