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ext4 Data Structures and Algorithms¶

  • 1. About this Book
    • 1.1. License
    • 1.2. Terminology
    • 1.3. Other References
  • 2. High Level Design
    • 2.1. Blocks
    • 2.2. Block Groups
    • 2.3. Special inodes
    • 2.4. Block and Inode Allocation Policy
    • 2.5. Checksums
    • 2.6. Bigalloc
    • 2.7. Inline Data
    • 2.8. Large Extended Attribute Values
    • 2.9. Verity files
    • 2.10. Atomic Block Writes
  • 3. Global Structures
    • 3.1. Super Block
    • 3.2. Block Group Descriptors
    • 3.3. Block and inode Bitmaps
    • 3.4. Inode Table
    • 3.5. Multiple Mount Protection
    • 3.6. Journal (jbd2)
    • 3.7. Orphan file
  • 4. Dynamic Structures
    • 4.1. Index Nodes
    • 4.2. The Contents of inode.i_block
    • 4.3. Directory Entries
    • 4.4. Extended Attributes
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