Re: Access content of file via inodes

2005-04-07 Thread Kathy KN (HK)
On Apr 6, 2005 3:01 AM, Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kathy KN wrote: > > Good day all, > > > > How do I access/read the content of the files via using inodes > > or blocks that belong to the inode, at sys_link and vfs_link layer? > > I used bmap to access the blocks that belongs to the

Re: Address space operations - >bmap

2005-04-07 Thread Bryan Henderson
>We are about to start implementing a fs where data can move around the >device and so a physical block address is not really useful. I have >understood from other postings to this list that reiserfs and ntfs >don't implement this method so I suppose we'll do the same. I'll just >find some nice err

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:56:35PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > IOW: the current semaphore implementations really all need to die, and > > be replaced by a single generic version to which it is actually > > practical to add ne

Re: Address space operations questions

2005-04-07 Thread Nikita Danilov
Martin Jambor writes: > Thank you very much for your reply. > > On Mar 30, 2005 3:55 PM, Nikita Danilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. What is bmap for and what is it supposed to do? > > > > ->bmap() maps logical block offset within "object" to physical block > > number. It is used i

Re: Access content of file via inodes

2005-04-07 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 02:47 -0400, Jeffrey Mahoney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kathy KN (HK) wrote: > > Just wondering. Say, reiserfs/r4, how is it possible to access > > the tail which contain the data of the file, since most of our > > production boxes uses eithe