This documents key features, usage, and on-disk design of erofs. Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt | 221 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 221 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..db2d22d61d11 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,221 @@ +Overview +======== + +EROFS file-system stands for Enhanced Read-Only File System. Different +from other read-only file systems, it aims to be designed for flexibility, +scalability, but be kept simple and high performance. + +It is designed as a better filesystem solution for the following scenarios: + - read-only storage media or + + - part of a fully trusted read-only solution, which means it needs to be + immutable and bit-for-bit identical to the official golden image for + their releases due to security and other considerations and + + - hope to save some extra storage space with guaranteed end-to-end performance + by using reduced metadata and transparent file compression, especially + for those embedded devices with limited memory (ex, smartphone); + +Here is the main features of EROFS: + - Little endian on-disk design; + + - Currently 4KB block size (nobh) and therefore maximum 16TB address space; + + - Metadata & data could be mixed by design; + + - 2 inode versions for different requirements: + v1 v2 + Inode metadata size: 32 bytes 64 bytes + Max file size: 4 GB 16 EB (also limited by max. vol size) + Max uids/gids: 65536 4294967296 + File creation time: no yes (64 + 32-bit timestamp) + Max hardlinks: 65536 4294967296 + Metadata reserved: 4 bytes 14 bytes + + - Support extended attributes (xattrs) as an option; + + - Support xattr inline and tail-end data inline for all files; + + - Support POSIX.1e ACLs by using xattrs; + + - Support statx(); + + - Support transparent file compression as an option: + LZ4 algorithm with 4 KB fixed-output compression for high performance; + +The following git tree provides the file system user-space tools under +development (ex, formatting tool mkfs.erofs): +>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git + +Bugs and patches are welcome, please kindly help us and send to the following +linux-erofs mailing list: +>> linux-erofs mailing list <linux-erofs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> + +Note that EROFS is still working in progress as a Linux staging driver, +Cc the staging mailing list as well is highly recommended: +>> Linux Driver Project Developer List <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> + +Mount options +============= + +fault_injection=%d Enable fault injection in all supported types with + specified injection rate. Supported injection type: + Type_Name Type_Value + FAULT_KMALLOC 0x000000001 + FAULT_READ_IO 0x000000002 +(no)user_xattr Setup Extended User Attributes. Note: xattr is enabled + by default if CONFIG_EROFS_FS_XATTR is selected. +(no)acl Setup POSIX Access Control List. Note: acl is enabled + by default if CONFIG_EROFS_FS_POSIX_ACL is selected. +cache_strategy=%s Select a strategy for cached decompression from now on: + disabled: In-place I/O decompression only; + readahead: Cache the last incomplete compressed physical + cluster for further reading. It still does + in-place I/O decompression for the rest + compressed physical clusters; + readaround: Cache the both ends of incomplete compressed + physical clusters for further reading. + It still does in-place I/O decompression + for the rest compressed physical clusters. + +On-disk details +=============== + +Summary +------- +Different from other read-only file systems, an EROFS volume is designed +to be as simple as possible: + + |-> aligned with the block size + ____________________________________________________________ + | |SB| | ... | Metadata | ... | Data | Metadata | ... | Data | + |_|__|_|_____|__________|_____|______|__________|_____|______| + 0 +1K + +All data areas should be aligned with the block size, but metadata areas +may not. All metadatas can be now observed in two different spaces (views): + 1. Inode metadata space + Each valid inode should be aligned with an inode slot, which is a fixed + value (32 bytes) and designed to be kept in line with v1 inode size. + + Each inode can be directly found with the following formula: + inode offset = meta_blkaddr * block_size + 32 * nid + + |-> aligned with 8B + |-> followed closely + + meta_blkaddr blocks |-> another slot + _____________________________________________________________________ + | ... | inode | xattrs | extents | data inline | ... | inode ... + |________|_______|(optional)|(optional)|__(optional)_|_____|__________ + |-> aligned with the inode slot size + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + .____________________________________________________|-> aligned with 4B + | xattr_ibody_header | shared xattrs | inline xattrs | + |____________________|_______________|_______________| + |-> 12 bytes <-|->x * 4 bytes<-| . + . . . + . . . + . . . + ._______________________________.______________________. + | id | id | id | id | ... | id | ent | ... | ent| ... | + |____|____|____|____|______|____|_____|_____|____|_____| + |-> aligned with 4B + |-> aligned with 4B + + Inode could be 32 or 64 bytes, which can be distinguished from a common + field which all inode versions have -- i_advise: + + __________________ __________________ + | i_advise | | i_advise | + |__________________| |__________________| + | ... | | ... | + | | | | + |__________________| 32 bytes | | + | | + |__________________| 64 bytes + + Xattrs, extents, data inline are followed by the corresponding inode with + proper alignes, and they could be optional for different data mappings, + _currently_ there are totally 3 valid data mappings supported: + + 1) flat file data without data inline (no extent); + 2) fixed-output size data compression (must have extents); + 3) flat file data with tail-end data inline (no extent); + + The size of the optional xattrs is indicated by i_xattr_count in inode + header. Large xattrs or xattrs shared by many different files can be + stored in shared xattrs metadata rather than inlined right after inode. + + 2. Shared xattrs metadata space + Shared xattrs space is similar to the above inode space, started with + a specific block indicated by xattr_blkaddr, organized one by one with + proper align. + + Each share xattr can also be directly found by the following formula: + xattr offset = xattr_blkaddr * block_size + 4 * xattr_id + + |-> aligned by 4 bytes + + xattr_blkaddr blocks |-> aligned with 4 bytes + _________________________________________________________________________ + | ... | xattr_entry | xattr data | ... | xattr_entry | xattr data ... + |________|_____________|_____________|_____|______________|_______________ + +Directories +----------- +All directories are now organized in a compact on-disk format. Note that +each directory block is divided into index and name areas in order to support +random file lookup, and all directory entries are _strictly_ recorded in +alphabetical order in order to support improved prefix binary search +algorithm (could refer to the related source code). + + ___________________________ + / | + / ______________|________________ + / / | nameoff1 | nameoffN-1 + ____________.______________._______________v________________v__________ +| dirent | dirent | ... | dirent | filename | filename | ... | filename | +|___.0___|____1___|_____|___N-1__|____0_____|____1_____|_____|___N-1____| + \ ^ + \ | * could have + \ | trailing '\0' + \________________________| nameoff0 + + Directory block + +Note that apart from the offset of the first filename, nameoff0 also indicates +the total number of directory entries in this block since it is no need to +introduce another on-disk field at all. + +Compression +----------- +Currently, EROFS supports 4KB fixed-output clustersize transparent file +compression, as illustrated below: + + |---- Variant-Length Extent ----|-------- VLE --------|----- VLE ----- + clusterofs clusterofs clusterofs + | | | logical data +_________v_______________________________v_____________________v_______________ +... | . | | . | | . | ... +____|____.________|_____________|________.____|_____________|__.__________|____ + |-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-| + size size size size size + . . . . + . . . . + . . . . + _______._____________._____________._____________._____________________ + ... | | | | ... physical data + _______|_____________|_____________|_____________|_____________________ + |-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-| + size size size + +Currently each on-disk physical cluster can contain 4KB (un)compressed data +at most. For each logical cluster, there is a corresponding on-disk index to +describe its cluster type, physical cluster address, etc. + +See "struct z_erofs_vle_decompressed_index" in erofs_fs.h for more details. + -- 2.17.1
