On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Felipe Franciosi <ozzy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As a matter of fact, I didn't see any critics to the question below. I can > only assume that messing with inodes can look academic or not depending on > the phase of the moon or something. > > ------------------8<------------------ > On 6 Jan 2009, at 10:36, Rohit Sharma wrote: >> >> I want to read data blocks from one inode >> and copy it to other inode. >> >> I mean to copy data from data blocks associated with one inode >> to the data blocks associated with other inode. >> >> Is that possible in kernel space.? >> -- By chance that question was also asked on the kernelnewbies list. The first responses there were also of the form "Why do you want to do that?" FYI: It started a very long thread discussing what they were actually doing. (This was part of the OHSM project that has been mentioned here a couple times.) It was eventually determined the proposed online_defrag patchset was very similar to their need. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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
