Hi, George: is there any reason to do this? we still need to copy files from userspace to kernel.
Thanks, Xun 2014-11-24 21:12 GMT+08:00 Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org>: > Hi. > > With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file > (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 filesystem and manipulate files > inside it. > > Is it possible to use the implementations in the kernel to do the same thing > with any supported normal filesystem? > > Obviously, it is theoretically possible, but my question is whether it has > been done in practice. I suppose it would require writing userland > replacement for the kernel APIs (memory management, access to block devices, > scheduling) and either rebuilding the kernel source as userland code or > loading the modules directly. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
