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The extended-2 filesystem overview
Gadi Oxman, tgud@tochnapc2.technion.ac.il
v0.1, August 3 1995
1.
Preface
2.
Introduction
3.
A filesystem - Why do we need it ?
4.
The Linux VFS layer
5.
About blocks and block groups
6.
The view of inodes from the point of view of a blocks group
7.
The group descriptors
8.
The block bitmap allocation block
9.
The inode allocation bitmap
10.
On the inode and the inode tables
10.1 The allocated blocks
10.2 The i_mode variable
10.3 Time and date
10.4 i_size
10.5 User and group id
10.6 Hard links
10.7 The Ext2fs extended flags
10.8 Symbolic links
10.9 i_version
10.10 Reserved variables
10.11 Special reserved inodes
11.
Directories
12.
The superblock
12.1 superblock identification
12.2 Filesystem fixed parameters
12.3 Ext2fs error handling
12.4 Additional parameters used by e2fsck
12.5 Additional user tunable parameters
12.6 Filesystem current state
13.
Copyright
14.
Acknowledgments
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