From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Concise description of disk layout?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:49:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E680B5.4050603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416002809.GG21586@mit.edu>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> 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?
Or do you mean like some XML DTD for a generic description? That's the
first thing that came to mind when I read it.
or ... an e2image actually *captures* all of that information about a
filesystem... depends what you're looking for I suppose?
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 0:50 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
2009-04-16 0:49 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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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