On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:01:57AM -0400, D Cleveland wrote: > I am working on writing a file system for the linux 2.2.14-6.1.1 kernel. > I have a few questions: > 1) should the file system that works on 2.2.14-6.1.1 work on 2.4.X > kernels? with lots of idefs that can be done. Depending on the size of the filesystem code and the number of internal abstraction layers it usually doesn't make sense. > 2) what is required to simply mount the file system? i have the module > compiling and it is showing up in the /proc/filesystems, but when i try a > mount (i just wanna mount it - babysteps) i get a seg fault. Then when i > do a rmmod it says "Device or resource busy". I have what i think is a > fully working read_super function but do more functions need to be > implemented? (I am not attatching the source since its more then 10 > lines, if you want a copy to better help then ill gladly send it.) if you use iget in your ->read_super you need ->read_inode as well. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
