On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:03:16PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > ReFS is Microsoft's new filesystem used in Windows 2012 Server and > above. There's no support for this in Linux (although I'm hoping to > change that) but it'd be nice if blkid could at least recognize it. > > So I thought you might be interested in the filesystem signature for > ReFS, which appears to be in the first 8 bytes: > > 00000000 00 00 00 52 65 46 53 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |...ReFS.........| After further research, I found some preliminary analysis: http://libfslibs.googlecode.com/files/Resilient%20File%20System%20(ReFS).pdf which is the best we have to go on so far. There is no superblock as such, but there is a level 0 metadata block. In any case that analysis agrees with me that you should just check the first 8 bytes of the filesystem / partition. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
