Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:44:36 +1100 | Subject | Re: performance of filesystem xattrs with Samba4 | From | tridge@samba ... |
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Anton,
> But to answer your question I definitely would envisage an interface to > the kernel driver rather than to libntfs. It is 'just' a matter of > deciding how that would look...
How about prototyping the API in user space, using a "mmap the block device" based filesystem library?
You might also like to take a peek at http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/include/smb_interfaces.h and http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/ntvfs/ntvfs.h
those two files define the NTFS-like interfaces in Samba4. The interface has proved to be quite flexible.
> Partially we will see what happens with Reiser4 as it faces the same or at > least very simillar interface problems.
yep, I'm looking forward to experimenting with the "file is a directory" stuff in reiser4 to see how well it can be made to match what is needed for Samba4.
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