Re: Direct VFS/SB Access and Private Submounting

2007-03-21 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
Hello, not sure if someone has written you back about this already, but what you are trying to do (look 'underneath' a mount point) can be done easily without kernel modifications. You can bind mount an existing filesystem to a new location, and examine its contents without following existin

Direct VFS/SB Access and Private Submounting

2007-03-18 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I'm looking for pointers to places to look (and especially documentation, if it exists) for how to directly access the VFS and its superblocks, and how to create a superblock private to my own structure. The first part is basically this: I want to be able to create syscalls parallel to the nor