Thanks for advice:-) Baozi On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Chen, > > thanks a lot for your interested in tackling this project. > > Writing to the end of the first block would work for 4k or larger block > sizes filesystems, but it's not a very clean solution. > > Id had a quick brainstorm with Dave and we came up with the following > idea: > > - create an extended attribute on the root filesystem that is larger > than than the filesystem block size (typically 4k), and store the > syslink payload in it. > - for the first prototype get its block number using the GETBMAPX > ioctl, and use it. > > once that prototype works we can talk about a good interface for you. > We could precreate the attribute at mkfs time at a fixed block number > so that syslinux can hardcode it, or we could discuss any other kind > of interface that helps you. > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
