Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories]

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:44:53 PDT

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
> To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu>
> Cc: Ted Deppner <ted@jasmine.psyber.com>; Chad C Giffin <typo@t-net.org>;
> linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories]
>
>
> >
> >Does that mean you have to unmount the file system?
> >
>
> Shouldn't be any need to. After all, the file system isn't unmounted
> everytime time a directory entry is modified.
>

If you modify a directory from user space, you normally need to
unmount the file system...like fsck...if you want it work right...

I suppose you could do the same in a kernel module and add a syscall
to do the work...

-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
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        3) Write down the answer
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