hi, thanks you all, Rahul's suggestion really helps me. On 1/8/11, Rahul Deshmukh <rahul.deshmukh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I think you are looking for following: > > fs/ext2/super.c: > > init_ext2_fs()-> register_filesystem(&ext2_fs_type)-> > ext2_get_sb()->ext2_fill_super() > > For every file system in linux kernel, first it register itself with > register_filesystem(). > Here this call is called when ext2 module is loaded. Then when file system > is mount > it will call ext2_fill_super() which will read the on disk super block and > load it into memory. > > The on disk super block is written when user format the device with given > file system. > > I hope that will help. > > - Rahul > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Fu Kai <kapenware@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> hi folks, >> I'm looking the source code about linux file system recently. I have >> scanned over ext2, >> and now I'm very curious about how does the kernel setup the ext2 up, but >> I >> couldn't locate >> the corresponding code. Could anybody give any advice for me? >> >> Thanks, >> owr >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> >> > -- Thanks, Fu Kai _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
