On Thu 07-03-13 19:46:20, Ted Tso wrote: > By the way, why was the application trying to access the directory > entries directly, as opposed to using some of the higher level > functions in libext2fs? What was it trying to do? It was btrfs-convert (I could have told that in my original email as well but it didn't seem important) - i.e. inplace convertor from ext4 to btrfs. So it really needed to get the file type from the directory block to fill in appropriate btrfs structures. > Is there some new higher-level functionality we should be providing? > Or was this just an application that didn't know about some better > interface that it could have used? Is this an open source > application? Can you send me a pointer to it? btrfs-convert is part of btrfsprogs so feel free to have a look. I don't think we can actually provide some high level functionality to serve its needs. It really just needs to do readdir(2) on fs image which is what is already implemented in libext2fs. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
