From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Simple inode question (ext2/3) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:38:21 -0500 Message-ID: <20090225143821.GH7064@mit.edu> References: <20090224210515.GA7064@mit.edu> <20090225040654.GT3199@webber.adilger.int> <417E5333-32B8-42AA-A498-011DF1DDB074@doc.ic.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Franciosi Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:33561 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753627AbZBYOi1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:38:27 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417E5333-32B8-42AA-A498-011DF1DDB074@doc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:59:22AM +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote: > As a matter of fact, I didn't see any critics to the question below. I > can only assume that messing with inodes can look academic or not > depending on the phase of the moon or something. > > On 6 Jan 2009, at 10:36, Rohit Sharma wrote: >> I want to read data blocks from one inode >> and copy it to other inode. >> >> I mean to copy data from data blocks associated with one inode >> to the data blocks associated with other inode. >> >> Is that possible in kernel space.? >> -- Actually, I asked Rohit what they were doing back September, 2008. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/9142 Personally, I'm not really convinced by the approach which the fscops project is adopting, but that's up to them to figure out. I was amused though by their powerpoint slides which claim that they are "on the way to being accepted in the mainline kernel" --- that seems a little gradious, given that they haven't even submitted any code for review yet. - Ted