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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Concise description of disk layout?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:28:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090416002809.GG21586@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239838392.12688.4.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:33:12PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> Does such a thing exist anywhere?  I.e. "inodes are here, data blocks
> are here, etc., etc."  I need to come up with something like this but if
> one already exists that would save a lot of time.

At what level?  You mean something like this:

   http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html

but updated for ext4?

Hmm, not really.  Fragments of what's there can be found in various
slide decks and papers, here:

      http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Publications

If you'd like to write up something comprehensive for the ext4 wiki,
that would be great.  :-)

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-16  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15 23:33 Concise description of disk layout? Frank Mayhar
2009-04-16  0:28 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-04-16  0:49   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-04-17 18:30   ` Frank Mayhar
2009-04-17 18:49     ` Frank Mayhar
2009-04-17 19:36       ` Theodore Tso

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