Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-25 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > 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 d

Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-24 Thread xun ni
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 : > Hi. > > With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file > (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 files

Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

2014-11-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Nicolas George wrote: > 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 norm