[fuse-devel] stat and mkdir when directory structure is not on-disk

[Vilobh M. <vil...@gm...>]

Hi ,

I am developing a FUSE based file system where my directory structure is not
stored on disk. I am storing directory structure somewhere else but not
on-disk.

So in such a case getattr/stat ( which will fill the struct stat) should
fail.
For example : If I want to create "d3" inside already created /d1/d2
> mkdir /d1/d2/d3
Then this will fail as the stat call will fail for "d1".

Any ideas how we should handle such cases ?

Is there a way that I update the stat structure for the directory with some
hard-coded values whereas I follow the standard logic when I perform
operations on file since my files will be created on disk.

Thanks,
Vilobh
*Graduate Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio*