Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-25 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file > (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 filesystem and manipulate files > inside it. > > Is it possible to use the implementations in the kernel to d

Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-24 Thread xun ni
Hi, George: is there any reason to do this? we still need to copy files from userspace to kernel. Thanks, Xun 2014-11-24 21:12 GMT+08:00 Nicolas George : > Hi. > > With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file > (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 files

Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Nicolas George wrote: > With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file > (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 filesystem and manipulate files > inside it. > > Is it possible to use the implementations in the kernel to do the same thing > with any supported norm

Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-24 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 filesystem and manipulate files inside it. Is it possible to use the implementations in the kernel to do the same thing with any supported normal filesystem? Obviously, i