Re: Accessing on-disk datastructures from a module

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Once you have your reserved inode, you can open it using iget to get
>> > the inode pointer. After that it would be same way as you would have
>> > done if you were allowed file ops in kernel. For eg.. If my reserved
>> > inode is 100 and I'm using ext2, it would be something like
>> > [...]
>>
>> Thanks a lot, that's really helpful!
>
> hello guys,
> can anyone  tell me how to make a disk based file reserved ?
> as manish said : buy making a file reserved for a file system the above task
> can be achieved.but how to make it reserved?

Just don't allocate that inode to anyone else and treat it specially
in your code. Same was as ROOT_INODE (typically 2) is handled.


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>> martin
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