linux-ext4 - Re: Concise description of disk layout?

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:49:57 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Concise description of disk layout?

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
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