Re: [Fwd: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers]
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:33:30 -0800
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > work). I am trying to set it up so Linux can use NWFS as a boot file
> > > system, and it appears you folks are going to oppose this hapenning by
> > > restricting needed capabilities in Linux?
> >
> > In what way does it need to talk to it in advance ?
>
> Alan,
>
> 1. Config mirror groups during boot.
> 2. Ask User Config Questions by querying FS data, if needed.
> 3. Check Volume Tables if fsck is required (rather than build them
> twice in user space)
> 4. not createing chicken/egg scenario becuase NWFS needs EXT2 to create
> it's "IOCTL" access point to perform the operations above without EXT2.
> 5. Utilities can talk to FS for namespace maintenance, etc. during
> normal opns.
>
> Jeff
And how do you expect to do this without a user space?
-hpa
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