From: Subranshu Patel Subject: Block allocation in EXT4 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:25:19 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-qe0-f45.google.com ([209.85.128.45]:51508 "EHLO mail-qe0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757257Ab3HZPzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:55:20 -0400 Received: by mail-qe0-f45.google.com with SMTP id 8so1169904qea.18 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: In EXT4 it seems that both direct/indirect and extent tree based block allocation is used. I used debugfs and it seems that the root inode uses the direct/indirect block allocation. The other files and direcyories used extent based allocation. Do all the EXT4 reserved inode (0 -11) use the direct/indirect allocation scheme?