linux-ext4 - Re: Simple inode question (ext2/3)

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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:38:21 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Felipe Franciosi <ozzy@....ic.ac.uk>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple inode question (ext2/3)

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:59:22AM +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote:
> As a matter of fact, I didn't see any critics to the question below. I  
> can only assume that messing with inodes can look academic or not  
> depending on the phase of the moon or something.
>
> On 6 Jan 2009, at 10:36, Rohit Sharma wrote:
>> I want to read data blocks from one inode
>> and copy it to other inode.
>>
>> I mean to copy data from data blocks associated with one inode
>> to the data blocks associated with other inode.
>>
>> Is that possible in kernel space.?
>> --

Actually, I asked Rohit what they were doing back September, 2008.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/9142

Personally, I'm not really convinced by the approach which the fscops
project is adopting, but that's up to them to figure out.  I was
amused though by their powerpoint slides which claim that they are "on
the way to being accepted in the mainline kernel" --- that seems a
little gradious, given that they haven't even submitted any code for
review yet.

					- Ted
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