[fuse-devel] Help in understanding fill_dir_common function

[harshil <ha...@vt...>]

Dear Fuse Team,

  I am a CS graduate student, and am exploring the possibility of
implementing a user space file system using FUSE. I looked into sample file
system implementations that are provided by FUSE. However, I haven't quite
understood the purpose of the function pointer fuse_fill_dir_t in the
readdir function.  Upon searching a little more, I discovered its
implementation using fill_dir_common. A portion of the code, as I understand
involves updating st_ino value. However, what is the purpose of fuse_dirent
functions? What is that this function (fill_dir_common) is trying to achieve
on the whole? I want you help me in this such that I can implement it
correctly in my case. 

 

I am trying to implement all these function calls on a remote machine and
make fuse client make calls to remote server.  Is there a way I can achieve
the effect of filler method present in readdir in the remote implementation.
Any suggestions or ideas?

 

Regards,

Harshil Shah