detail explain of file creation process

Zeremski Boris zeremski.boris at nsinfo.co.yu
Mon Jul 17 05:13:43 UTC 2006


Thanks,

I will try to spend some time to solve this problem,....
If you have any suggestion, please be free to tell me.
Any help is welcome.

Bye

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger at clusterfs.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:21 AM
> To: Zeremski Boris
> Cc: 'christian'; Ext3-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: detail explain of file creation process
> 
> On Jul 14, 2006  07:09 +0200, Zeremski Boris wrote:
> > Hi, this link is great, explain basic concept of ext2/3 file system
> (inode,
> > directory, soft/hard links...).
> >
> > What I am interested in, is more detail process of creating file. What
> is
> > going on when, for example, make 'touch test.file' till that file really
> > start existing on file system.
> >
> > Where can I find his kind of information?
> 
> If you run UML with GDB, you can set a breakpoint at "sys_open" and follow
> it around from there.  Also of interest are ext3_lookup, ext3_create.
> 
> If you don't find any documentation, you might consider writing a wiki
> page for this as you figure it out.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.




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