On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Vijay Chauhan <kernel.vijay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi list, > > Can anyone please provide me links about the basic explanations of XFS > basic blocks and filesystem logical block mapping and conversion > routines? You can refer the XFSdocuments from the links: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/xfs_filesystem_structure.pdf http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Filesystem_Structure//tmp/en-US/html/index.html But the information which you are looking for is actually - trying to dig into the layout of filesystem on disk. After going through intial documents - few things can be verified by taking a hexdump of the disk and then analysing the data. Keeping the filesystem partition to empty and to a small partition size will help fast analyses. You can give this a try with a 100MB XFS formatted partition. > > I tried to understand from code but its not clear to me: > #define XFS_FSB_TO_BB(mp,fsbno) ((fsbno) << (mp)->m_blkbb_log) > #define XFS_BB_TO_FSB(mp,bb) \ > (((bb) + (XFS_FSB_TO_BB(mp,1) - 1)) >> (mp)->m_blkbb_log) > #define XFS_BB_TO_FSBT(mp,bb) ((bb) >> (mp)->m_blkbb_log) > #define XFS_BB_FSB_OFFSET(mp,bb) ((bb) & ((mp)->m_bsize - 1)) > > lets consider the last one: > #define XFS_BB_FSB_OFFSET(mp,bb) ((bb) & ((mp)->m_bsize - 1)) > > if basic block (512 byte size) number is 7 and m_bsize is 12 > (considering FS block size 4096), then this will return 3 [e.g. ( 7 & > 11) ]. then what does 3 means here? what offset value it is denoting? If I am correct this indicates the starting block with respect to that partition. So, If I have 20GB disk with 10-10 GB partitions, and Suppose the second partition is XFS formatted - then layout will be in terms of offset on that partition and not with respect to Starting of the disk. For actually checking the data about some file and understanding more: Create a file on XFS partition and then use xfs_bmap to view the block mapping of the file(xfs_db can also be used - this is explained in the documents - but this works on unmounted device) xfs_bmap <filename> will return a layout for the file(in terms of extent) 0: [0..9503]: 67181048..67190551 where the values in [] - indicates starting and ending offset, while the values next to it represent the block numbers on that disk with respect to that partition. These values are in terms of 'sectors' and not in blocks - so to actually correlate them - divide each values by '8'(512 =4096/8) Thanks Amit Sahrawat > > Thanks in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
