Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Hello, all.
> For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some
> type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or preparation for OS
> booting (e.g. in FAT put IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS at the begining of the
> root directory). While theese functions are quite specific to FS
> sometimes are important to implement.

What would be the purpose of that?  Please describe a use case.

> [...]. So I intend to implement a call "swapfso" (FSO=File System
> Object) at least for fat and ext2.

Do you mean a filesystem write that swaps two file references?

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