hi but i want to maintain my own inode structure and so on. the only way i find is to change the ext2/3 code to support my file system. also the 2Gb may not be sufficient. btw can i access a disk block jus by its address(if i find it by some means) bye On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Bijoy Thomas wrote: > i guess you just havta read block size no:of bytes using the read syscall > if ur block size is defined as > #define BLOCK_SIZE 1024 > then to get a block just read(fd,buf,BLOCK_SIZE); > > and u can lseek 1024 bytes to get to various blocks. > > for the file size ... i think u may be stuck with 2GB size .... > > Bijoy. > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Anandanam Rama Kotaiah wrote: > > > hi all > > i want some help regarding disk block access. I want to simulate a file > > system designed. Now for tht can i use ext2/3 fs as the base and simulate > > the inode and data blcks designed by me. If at all i can use how do i > > access the data blks directly from C code. I can use a file to store the > > metadata but its max size is limited to 2 GB. > > > > thnx in advance > > bye > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
