Re: opening files in the kernel
Re: opening files in the kernel
- Subject: Re: opening files in the kernel
- From: Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:10:52 +0000
At 21:48 -0800 24/2/04, Mike Smith wrote:
IOW, do it "just like HFS" wherever you can.
Agreed. Also, there's no reason why the lack of support for storing
your file's extents in the volume header should slow you down. The
only reason HFS Plus needs that information in the volume header is
so that it can find the catalogue and extents overflow files. Once
you have access to those files, you can store the information about
your special files there.
You should probably hide your special files from clients (like the
"HFS+ Private Data" directory; look through the source for
hfs_privdir_desc for hints on how to do this) and also mark it
invisible in the Finder information so that, if your volume is
mounted by a version of HFS other than yours, it isn't seen by the
user.
S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!" <
http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
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