I would like to first of all apologize to the
community. I was looking for help with one thing, and
it turned into a "use e2compr for all your needs." I
have no problems with e2compr, nor do I intend to
replace it. My intent was to see if I could
manipulate data at the location where the I/O stuff
was occuring and where the application developer makes
the system call.
I was using the disk compression as an example because
it was something I was toying with over break and
became a bit overwhelmed with the vtables and all of
the low-level stuff. The second reason was that the
patches for e2compr were only avaliable for the 2.2x
series, and I had already patched my kernel to 2.3.35
at that time and was having an absolute riot trying to
patch in the e2compr patch after I made the initial
patches and deleted them from my hard drive.
Now I have reinstalled Linux on my machine because a
package refused to agree with me, and I have compiled
in patches for the latest 2.2.x release (14), and I
have also patched with e2compr. I still have yet to
update the rest of my OS so the kernel may work and
have yet to try the patch. Riley is right when he said
that I haven't looked at the code yet, but I did have
a chance to over the weekend, and the smoke test has
yet to come.
But my original question still has yet to be answered,
and that is where does the low-level I/O and the
system call come together?
If I stepped on any toes or if this came out wrong, I
apologize.
Ciao
=====
Christopher A. Baumbauer
cab105@yahoo.com
"Time is an illusion" - Ford
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Feb 07 2000 - 21:00:15 EST