Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:02:31 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers] |
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Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > The problem with this is there's a chicken and egg situation. I cannot > call any IOCTL's until a volume is first mounted (which is not very > helpful). NetWare and Windows 2000 both support IOCTL's into the file > system driver. I need to be able to talk to the file system without any > volumes mounted.
If you need to configure the filesystem before the root is mounted, you can either: a) use initrd to tweak the fs via a /dev node. b) pass the config information on the kernel command line. look at the drivers/block/md.c for an example.
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Brian Gerst
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