On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Not an assignment actually, but a project. > We are working on open hierarchical storage management, in which we > store files on disks according to different file placement policies. > For eg. if i say that all the important files, like all the employee > database should be in disk 1 and all the songs on disk 2, then we > place them accordingly in different disks. > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:49:04PM +0530, Rohit Sharma wrote: > >> Suppose i have a file named abc.txt and i want to specify that > >> all the *.txt files must be allocated between block groups no. 100 - > >> 200 in ext2 fs. > >> > >> Is there a way to do this? > >> > >> can we modify function ext2_new_inode and find_group_orlov for this? > > > > You would have to modify kernel code to do this; the main question > > which comes to mind is *why* would you want to do something like this? > > It seems like an ideal problem set that a professor might give to a > > student, since it would force them to try to get from an inode to the > > pathname used to open the file. So it seems to be one of these really > > pointless things that isn't particularly useful in real life, except > > for pedagogical purposes. > > > > - Ted > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > Hi Rohit, Just out of curiosity, how are you going to identify the type of file inside kernel ? from an extension or file format ? Thanks. -- Sunil.