Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:09:35 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Steps to open a file/handled by kernel? |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, peter wrote:
| CC: all replies to: arevill@bigpond.net.au | Hi guys, im in discussion with one of my compsci mates to start an | intresting little project, its not concrete yet, not at all, i really | need to get a good grasp of what im going to have to code before i | decide to jump in or not, ill give you a quick run down | | Basically we want to make a sort of.. auto compression/uncompression of | files as there accessed/not accessed, basically to save a hell of alot | of space, but before we even BEGIN to do it, i really need to understand | the calls and the "arguments" and the stages the kernel/userspace (if it | is invovled (if userspace is even the right word!) takes to read from a | file (and write to it while we are at it) | | any information people feel is relevant or any sort of url u can point | me to or just a little guide of waht happens would be appreciiated, | please CC: all msgs to arevill@bigpond.net.au
maybe this will help: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/vfs/trail.html#toc3
-- ~Randy
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