Linux Kernel Architecture

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family are divided into blocks that are occupied by files. How many blocks a particular file ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family This approach permits the flexible storage of large and small files because the size o ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family 32 bits to address positions within a file, this restricts maximum file size to 2^32 b ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family 9.2.2 Data Structures Now that we have considered the structural principles underlying ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family * about a feature in either the compatible or incompatible * feature set, it must abor ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family To ensure filesystem portability between systems, the designers of the Ext2 filesystem ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family ❑ Thes_def_resuidands_def_resgidfields specify the user and group IDs of a system user ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family versions. Examples of this kind of enhancement are the journal introduced in Ext3 (dis ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family Other incompatible features are: ext2_fs.h #define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_COMPRESSION 0 ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family The contents of each group descriptor include not only status entries indicating the n ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family The division of a partition into block groups makes sense for systematic reasons and a ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family __u16 i_pad1; __le16 l_i_uid_high; /* these 2 fields */ __le16 l_i_gid_high; /* were r ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family the representation of a 32-bit wide user and group identifier so that 2^32 =4,294,967, ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family Thetypedefstatement allows the shorterext2_direntto be used in place ofstruct ext2_dir ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family source\0 \0 12 1 2. \0 \0 \0 12 22 16 84 32 57 16 62 16 61 16 7 2 ..h\0 \0 hardd isk l ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family ❑ Device files,named pipes,andpersistent socketsare also fully described by the inform ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family spinlock_t s_next_gen_lock; u32 s_next_generation; unsigned long s_dir_count; u8 *s_de ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family number of management blocks from the number of blocks available for the filesystem. Al ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family The window needs to be integrated with the other Ext2 data structures. Recall that bot ...

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family ❑ rsv_alloc_hitskeeps track of the pre-allocation hits, that is, how many allocations ...