On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Jan Kara <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Rohit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: >> > How does ext2 allocate blocks for directory. >> > >> > ext2_mkdir calls ext2_make_empty >> > >> > ext2_make_empty calls __ext2_write_begin >> > >> > __ ext2_write_begin calls block_write_begin >> > >> > my query is that how does this function allocates blocks for directories. >> > ?? >> > >> >> Does ext2 uses ext2_get_block to allocate blocks for both files and >> directories. ?? > Yes, exactly. Ext2 (unlike ext3 or ext4) treats directories the same > ways as ordinary files and thus ext2_get_block is used for block > allocation. >
Can i modify this function to restrict allocation of blocks to a particular block group ? Like i want that my abc.txt file should be in block group 5 suppose, then what should i do? > Honza > > -- > Jan Kara <[email protected]> > SuSE CR Labs > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
