From: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Subject: Re: Concise description of disk layout?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:30:44 +0000 (UTC)
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Sorry for the late reply.

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:28:09 -0400, 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?

Yeah, the "Physical Structure" section.

> 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

Sigh.  Okay, I'll dig through those.

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

I'm going to have to come up with something, although it probably won't 
be comprehensive.  With luck I'll have time to make it suitable for 
public consumption. :-)
-- 
Frank Mayhar
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