-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:54:41PM +0530, Abhijit Pawar wrote: > Just to see the different aspect of the filesystem and its working, I am > planning to write a simple filesystem of my own. > This will be: > 1. A Filter layer around ext2fs > 2. Will implement File Create, Read, Write, Delete, Link, Symlink > 3. Will log the messages for any of the operations on this filesystem Interesting things will happen when that logfile lives on the very filesystem it logs about. > 4. Inform Administrator if the file is deleted. No need for any kernel support, once you've created a log facility support for this comes for free (the joys of userspace). > I was wondering if this would be a good excersise to check the details of > the filesystem. > Any pointers on this is really appreciated. All you want can be done in userland, check out FUSE and Jeff Garzik's fuse-ext2 code at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/fs/ . Git repository is at http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/fuse/fuse-ext2.git;a=summary . Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGybBP/PlVHJtIto0RAnNfAJ4qV9H9LaeRHVCSgBPcl6/AOjmfjwCggZoB 2qf9X6xC7qfBEP+iHQQcYU8= =G88Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
