On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:11:27PM -0700, EXT-Wolber, Richard wrote: > Is it practical to get a R/W file handle opened against an existing file > on an unmounted ext2 filesystem? What do you mean by a "read/write file handle"? Do you mean opening a file descriptor using the open(2) system call? Do you mean opening a stdio stream handle using the fopen(3) library call? In either case, no, you can can only open() or fopen() a file on a mounted filesystem, and it doesn't matter which filesystem you are using. There are a set of interfaces as part of the ext2fs library which would allow you to manipulate a file on an unmounted filesystem. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
