Thanks a lot! That's really helpful =) Unfortunately something is going wrong here, and the implementation of XFS_INO_TO_FSB is quite intrincated, enough that it is hard to be sure what is wrong here ... I am trying to resolve the location of the root inode, which has number 128, but my XFS_INO_TO_FSB call is resolving to $80000 which is not an inode. XFS_INO_AGINO_BITS returns m_agino_log which is defined as sb_inopblog + sb_agblklog. Both are zero here, so this whole part resolves to zero. About sb_agcount I read and reread the code and it is really hard to figure what number it should have in this part of the code, but in my superblock it comes with value 4, so I am using this. XFS_INO_TO_AGNO = (i) shr XFS_INO_AGINO_BITS, with i (inode nr) =128 shr 0 = so this part resolves to 128 XFS_INO_TO_AGBNO = (i shr XFS_INO_OFFSET_BITS(m_sb)) and XFS_INO_MASK(XFS_INO_AGBNO_BITS(m_sb)); XFS_INO_OFFSET_BITS = sb_inopblog which is 0 in my partition XFS_INO_AGBNO_BITS = sb_agblklog which is 0 in my partition XFS_INO_MASK = (1 shl k) - 1; with k=0 it resolves to 0 #define XFS_INO_TO_AGBNO(mp,i) \ (((xfs_agblock_t)(i) >> XFS_INO_OFFSET_BITS(mp)) & \ XFS_INO_MASK(XFS_INO_AGBNO_BITS(mp))) With i=128 >> 0 we get 0, but then we have & 0, so this whole part resolves to zero So now we are left with XFS_AGB_TO_FSB(mp, 128, 0) #define XFS_AGB_TO_FSB(mp,agno,agbno) \ (((xfs_fsblock_t)(agno) << (mp)->m_sb.sb_agblklog) | (agbno)) Which resolves to 128 because 128 << 0 | 0 = 128 So I calculate 128 * block_size, I have a blocksize of $1000 in my supernode, so that's how I arrived at $80000 But looking inside my partition I'm pretty sure that $80000 is not an inode.... Any ideas where I got things wrong?? =( I've been trying for hours to figure where I got things wrong but no ideas yet =/ I can post my superblock content here if it would be helpful. thanks again =) Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/24/14, 5:09 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am writing an application which reads XFS partitions, so I am trying >> to understand the internal working of XFS. I read the documentation >> here: http://www.dubeyko.com/development/FileSystems/XFS/xfs_filesystem_structure.pdf >> >> But I am stuck at a particular point. To get to the inodes I see that >> I should first read xfs_agi_t, no problem here, then its root field >> points to a block which contains xfs_inobt_block_t + a sequence of >> xfs_inobt_rec_t records and those records are supposed to show me >> where the inodes are, but there is no field in xfs_inobt_rec_t such as >> a block number =( Any idea how to get then the physical position in >> the disk where the inodes are from xfs_inobt_block_t + a sequence of >> xfs_inobt_rec_t? > > The inode's location is encoded in its inode number. > > See for example: > > > /* > * Inode number format: > * low inopblog bits - offset in block > * next agblklog bits - block number in ag > * next agno_log bits - ag number > * high agno_log-agblklog-inopblog bits - 0 > */ > > > #define XFS_INO_TO_FSB(mp,i) \ > XFS_AGB_TO_FSB(mp, XFS_INO_TO_AGNO(mp,i), XFS_INO_TO_AGBNO(mp,i)) > > -Eric > >> thanks, >> > -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
