Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

2008-09-06 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:27:20PM +0200, phcoder wrote: >>> Could this be made more transparent? For example, with a variable. >>> >> Here perhaps it could be. But in other usage cases like putting the dos >> boot files into the right place or doing swapfso it couldn't. >

Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:27:20PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > > > > Could this be made more transparent? For example, with a variable. > > > Here perhaps it could be. But in other usage cases like putting the dos > boot files into the right place or doing swapfso it couldn't. We intentionally don'

Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

2008-09-04 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:25:51PM +0200, phcoder wrote: >> Robert Millan wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote: Hello, all. For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage

Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

2008-09-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:25:51PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote: > >> Hello, all. > >> For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some > >> type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or preparation

Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

2008-09-03 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote: >> Hello, all. >> For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some >> type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or preparation for OS >> booting (e.g. in FAT put IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS at the begi

Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

2008-09-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Hello, all. > For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some > type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or preparation for OS > booting (e.g. in FAT put IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS at the begining of the > root director