On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Sunil <infinite.questions@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > Hi Rohit, > > Just out of curiosity, how are you going to identify the type of file inside Thanks Sunil for looking into the matter. > kernel ? from an extension or file format ? > Yes i will find using extension. :) > Thanks. > > -- > Sunil. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
