On 1/25/06, Joshua Hudson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am working on a kernel filesystem driver. I have found plenty of
> documentation on
> how to communicate between the VFS and the filesystem driver, but nothing
> on how to communicate between the block device and the filesystem driver.
>
AFAIK there isn't any documentation/article for block and filesystem
layer interaction (or till now me also not able to find any) :)
> I found sb_bread() but there is no corrisponding sb_bwrite().
> I presume that if ((struct superblock *)s) -> bdev is the block
> device handle, but I cannot find the read/write pair of functions.
> -
sb_bread is the function used for reading a block (especially
superblock) from the storage. For reading/writing do look at
generic_file_read/write functions found in mm/filemap.c and when going
through the code you will see its ends up in calling
mappings->a_ops->readpage(s)/writepage(s) of filesystem in which
normal filesystems (like ext2) just call function
mpage_readpages/writepages found in fs/mpage.c which performs actual
read/write on the block device.
I hope this helps !
--
Fawad Lateef
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