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SubjectHow can I allocate few bytes to a file to store info about that file?
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Hi all,

I was going through the functions like generic_file_write, generic_file_direct_IO, generic_direct_IO and filemap_fdatasync. I was thinking about calling these functions or calling functions written on similar lines to add new few bytes to the file when the inode is created by "ext2_create()". Can any1 please tell me how to do this? What I mean is, I want to add few bytes to the file as soon as it is created. I want to store some information regarding the file in that area.

I guess it would have been simpler to call these functions in the call sys_open() when a new file is created, but I want to make changes in kernel code only in ext2 module. playing with sys_open will be like modifying kernel code apart from the ext2 fs module which I dont want.

Thanks and regards,

Vineet

--- On Mon 04/26, Vineet Joglekar < vintya@excite.com > wrote:
From: Vineet Joglekar [mailto: vintya@excite.com]
To: linux-fsf@vger.kernel.org
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:31:19 -0400
Subject: Can I allocate few bytes in a file to store info about that file; not visible to user?

Hi all,<br><br>In ext2fs, while creating a file, can I allocate a number of bytes for that file in advance, such that those bytes are not seen by the user? that is,<br><br>suppose I am creating a new file temp, then allocate 50 bytes immediately after creating the file. I want to use those bytes to store the file related info; accessible only to kernel. Whatever data user wants to add, will be added after the these 50 bytes. If user does lseek(fd,0,SEEK_SET), then the file pointer should point to the 51st byte. The 1st 50 bytes shouldnt be visible to user. I dont care if the file size is shown as userdata+50. Is it possible to achieve? If yes, how?<br><br>Thanks and regards,

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