Hi Simon On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Simon <turner25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, (few paragraphs of introductory blabla, precise question at > the bottom!) > I'm a c/c++ programmer but never done anything with the kernel > (except config and compile!)... but I have been thinking about a few > things and I'm sure they may not help the world very much but might > still be interesting projects to learn a great deal. Wellcome onboard ;-) > > I was thinking on making a new VFS Don`t try to start by changing the world, it`ll frustrate you if you don`t get there. > (as i understand it the VFS is > what receives all FS related calls, and translates those calls > depending on the end-device's drivers, as i understand, it works this > way: fs call from userspace -> VFS -> Raid(for example) -> ext2 ). > > The new VFS would do the same work as the current VFS, but would add > more logging and statistics capabilities. Why not add new capabilities for an already running system(VFS)? > I was thinking on filtering > like what file is read and when, what file is written and when. You could read about inotify, you could even get involved. > Thats > the basic, and this info would be logged into a SQL database (probably > sqlite) for a better analysis later. > > The final goal of this thing would be to help in making automated > incremental backup that could do something as flexible as trigger a > script with the list of files that needs to be backed up, so this > script can do anything the user has specified (copy&compress, copy to > a remote destination, etc...). This would be benefited by a file system event notification system, like inotify. > I dont think this is a super advantage > to anyone and i understand most of the work would for near nothing... > but my real real goal is to learn & practice kernel coding (get my > hands dirty for once!) and to learn how files are handled on linux (at > a more low level). > > My question is: if i read on VFS, is this the correct keyword for > what I intend to do? Is there anything else that is closely related > that I would need to read? (i mean specific to my project, i already > have links to more general kernel dev). And is there any such kind of > project that I could look into, reuse and extend possibly? AFAICS inotify. regards... -- (°= Leandro Dorileo //\ ldorileo@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.dorilex.net V_/ Software is a matter of freedom. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
