From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Concise description of disk layout? Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:28:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20090416002809.GG21586@mit.edu> References: <1239838392.12688.4.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Frank Mayhar Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:52729 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753642AbZDPA2R (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:28:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1239838392.12688.4.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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