thank you for replying . well iam working on a project where i need to allocate few blockgroups for manipulation of data. yeah i can write the code but i was actually thinking that could i somehow manipulate the code at top level of allocation , so that not much changes Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 08:07:06AM -0700, vineetagarwal wrote: >> >> I want to allocate few blocks from a blockgroup in ext2 within a range of >> offset specified by user. Is it possible of doing so if yes then can >> someone >> please explain.As i know balloc.c and ialloc.c are responsible for it and >> they work on entire file system can i somehow manipulate it for ceratin >> ranges. >> >> For Ex >> let say i provide a range 100 - 3000. Can i allocate few blocks within >> this >> range . > > While the filesystem mounted (and accessed through the kernel) or > unmounted (and accessed via libext2fs)? Anything is possible. if you > are willing to write some code.... > > Why do you need to do this, and is this for some class or problem set? > > - Ted > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Block-allocation-tp19703506p19722589.html Sent from the linux-ext4 mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
