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From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
To: sri <toyours_sridhar@yahoo.co.in>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: good documentation on btrfs internals and on disk layout
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:28:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330172819.GD20816@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160330T155403-473@post.gmane.org>

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:58:03PM +0000, sri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I could find very limited documentation related to on disk layout of btrfs 
> and how all trees are related to each other. Except wiki which has very 
> specific top level details I couldn't able to find more details on btrfs.
> 
> FSs such as zfs, ext3/4 and XFS there are documents which explains ondisk 
> layout of the file systems.
> 
> Could anybody please provide pointers for the same for better 
> understanding of btrfs on disk layout and how each tree interacts provided 
> multiple disks are configured for btrfs.

There is a paper[1] about btrfs filesystem which covers all the details.

[1]: BTRFS: The Linux B-Tree Filesystem

Thanks,

-liubo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-30 13:58 good documentation on btrfs internals and on disk layout sri
2016-03-30 17:28 ` Liu Bo [this message]
2016-03-30 18:11   ` Dave Stevens
2016-03-30 18:43 ` Hugo Mills
2016-04-05 17:53   ` Yauhen Kharuzhy
2016-04-05 18:15     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-04-05 18:36       ` Yauhen Kharuzhy
2016-04-05 18:56         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-04-05 19:26           ` Yauhen Kharuzhy

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