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Understanding the Linux Kernel
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Understanding the Linux Kernel

by Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
704 pages
18h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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17.5. Ext2 Methods

Many of the VFS methods described in Chapter 12 have a corresponding Ext2 implementation. Since it would take a whole book to describe all of them, we'll limit ourselves to briefly reviewing the methods implemented in Ext2. Once the disk and the memory data structures are clearly understood, the reader should be able to follow the code of the Ext2 functions that implement them.

17.5.1. Ext2 Superblock Operations

All VFS superblock operations have a specific implementation in Ext2, with the exception of the clear_inode and umount_begin VFS methods. The addresses of the superblock methods are stored into the ext2_sops array of pointers.

17.5.2. Ext2 Inode Operations

Many of the VFS inode operations have a specific implementation in Ext2, which depends on the type of the file to which the inode refers. Table 17-8 illustrates the inode operations implemented for inodes that refer to regular and directory files; their addresses are stored in the ext2_file_inode_operations and in the ext2_dir_inode_operations tables, respectively. Recall that the VFS uses its own generic functions when the corresponding Ext2 method is undefined (NULL pointer).

Table 17-8. Ext2 Inode Operations for Regular and Directory Files
VFS Inode Operation Ext2 File Inode Method Ext2 Directory Inode Method
lookup NULL ext2_lookup( )
link NULL ext2_link( )
unlink NULL ext2_unlink( )
symlink NULL ext2_symlink( )
mkdir NULL ext2_mkdir( )
rmdir NULL ext2_rmdir( )
create NULL ext2_create( )
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