Re: ext2_block_alloc_info

2008-12-23 Thread Sandeep K Sinha
Thanks a lot Peter and Andreas for taking out time and going through fscops. We welcome all your suggestion. We will soon be uploading all the docs/sources on to the web. Stay tuned !!! Thanks, Again On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Dec 23, 2008 10:07 +0530, Sandeep

Problem with Modules

2008-12-23 Thread niamathullah sharief
Hi friendsĀ  This is Dilip...i tried to install the below modules by using "modprobe" command...but its showing an erroreven if try in "insmod" its getting error as "undefined symbol"...Actually it means that there is an dep module have to install before this module...so i installed the "

what's the rationale for the /dev/pts mount point?

2008-12-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm well aware of the use of the pseudo tty ports under /dev/pts, but i never understood the value of having a distinct "devpts" filesystem, until today. i was working with an embedded system with a flashed root filesystem that included /dev so, obviously, everything under /dev was also read

Re: Problem concerning VFS

2008-12-23 Thread Stephane Lambert
Hi, thanks for your answer. When compiling, romfs.img appears in the uClinux/uClinux-dist/images. As you suggested, I have tried rdev but it is available only for i386 architectures (which I don't have, a new embedded processor). The romfs is loaded into memory (this is done at a known address

Re: ext2_block_alloc_info

2008-12-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Dec 23, 2008 10:07 +0530, Sandeep K Sinha wrote: > I have a tool ready with unfolds a file system completely thrugh > ioctl. You will just have to patch the kernel. > And that also, its for ext2. It would be much more generic to use the FIEMAP ioctl, which has made it into the 2.6.28 kernel.

Re: synchronous metadata update

2008-12-23 Thread Shyam Burkule
Thanks for help!! On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Manish Katiyar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:23 PM, pradeep singh > wrote: > > Hello, > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Sandeep K Sinha > > wrote: > > [snip] > >>> Can you please describe any scenario, where this may happen? > >>> One