On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Martin DeMello > <martindemello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I would like to maintain some filesystem metadata as an on-disk >> datastructure that can be read and written to from within the >> filesystem module. I know file access from within the kernel is a bad >> idea; what is the recommended alternative for this? > > You can try to have a reserved inode and use that. That is what I was trying to do, but I can't find any documentation on how to read/write to it. Could you point me towards some docs or examples? martin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
