Not an assignment actually, but a project. We are working on open hierarchical storage management, in which we store files on disks according to different file placement policies. For eg. if i say that all the important files, like all the employee database should be in disk 1 and all the songs on disk 2, then we place them accordingly in different disks. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:49:04PM +0530, Rohit Sharma wrote: >> Suppose i have a file named abc.txt and i want to specify that >> all the *.txt files must be allocated between block groups no. 100 - >> 200 in ext2 fs. >> >> Is there a way to do this? >> >> can we modify function ext2_new_inode and find_group_orlov for this? > > You would have to modify kernel code to do this; the main question > which comes to mind is *why* would you want to do something like this? > It seems like an ideal problem set that a professor might give to a > student, since it would force them to try to get from an inode to the > pathname used to open the file. So it seems to be one of these really > pointless things that isn't particularly useful in real life, except > for pedagogical purposes. > > - Ted > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
