Re: ReFS

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 02:27:07PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.........|

 I have added this magic string to libblkid.

> After further research, I found some preliminary analysis:
> 
> http://libfslibs.googlecode.com/files/Resilient%20File%20System%20(ReFS).pdf

 Thanks.

> 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

 Yes, expected, I guess all is stored in some key-value DB (b-trees or
 so).

    Karel


-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com
--
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




[Index of Archives]     [Netdev]     [Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux