Re: Where can I find symlink's target?

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On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:29:50PM +0000, email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm taking a look at the B-tree level of btrfs. I have a dir item
> which is a symlink and I'm wondering where I can get the symlink's
> target from.

   I'm not 100% certain about the btrfs implementation from memory,
but doesn't a symlink simply have file contents that give the link's
target? For something as small as a symlink, this will probably be an
inline extent.

> I hope anyone can tell me? Is there a bloody technical documentation
> of btrfs somewhere out there that can answer me questions like this?

   It's all documented in some detail on the wiki[1], which is
currently down after the kernel.org hack. We're expecting it to be
back by the end of this week. (And if it's not, we're told we'll get a
dump of the database, so we can have it back up somewhere else shortly
after that).

   Hugo.

[1] http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/

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