On Friday 19 April 2002 12:48 am, Charles Johnson wrote: > I'm attempting to design a file system which in reality is just a filter on > top of ext2 or whatever is below it. It is somewhat similar to when you > use the loop device to mount a DOS or CD file system which encapulated > within a normal file. > > So I've go it so that I can use the loop device to be the block device to > the file. So my question is, what is the proper APIs to use to read the > data out of the file ?? The sb_read(), bread(), brelse() APIs ?? (The > block cache APIs) > I did not understand your question , can you elaborate ? ( specially the second para ) rpm -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
