Re: Question about btrfs metadata structure

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On 07/25/2012 06:41 PM, Guenther Rasch wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm writing my bsc thesis about btrfs and I'm analyzing the
> btrfs metadata structure at the moment.
> 
> I'm using fedora 17 with kernel 3.4 and btrfs-prog from your
> git-repository. For an overview I use "btrfs-debug-tree" and
> here are my questions:
> 
> The root tree contains some inode_items, but I don't understand
> the meaning of them:
> item 4 key (ROOT_TREE_DIR INODE_ITEM 0) itemoff 3101 itemsize 160
> inode generation 3 size 0 block group 0 mode 40555 links 1
> 
> item 5 key (ROOT_TREE_DIR INODE_REF 6) itemoff 3089 itemsize 12
> inode ref index 0 namelen 2 name: ..
> 
> The key for an inode_item is objectid=ROOT_TREE_DIR. ROOT-TREE-DIR is
> the inode-Nr.?
> What does offset=6 regarding INODE_REF mean? --> item 5
> 


I think you can find the answer by doing grep ROOT_TREE_DIR in btrfs-progs source code. ;)

> Also placed in the root tree, I've found entries of
> (FREE_SPACE UNTYPED ....)
> What does UNTYPED mean in this context and the offset is
> the logical address of a block group (I guess...)? This
> item has a pointer to an inode_item, is that right?
> 


It's free space cache, which refers to free-space-cache.c in upstream's code.

> And last question about this entries:
> item 2 key (FS_TREE INODE_REF 6) itemoff 3500 itemsize 17
>  inode ref index 0 namelen 7 name: default
> ...
> item 6 key (ROOT_TREE_DIR DIR_ITEM 2378154706) itemoff 3052 itemsize 37
>  location key (FS_TREE ROOT_ITEM 18446744073709551615) type 2
>  namelen 7 datalen 0 name: default
> 
> There is an INODE_REF (again, offset 6...?) pointing to
> which inode? I cannot find some...
> What's about that offset in location key (FS_TREE....)
> 
> Thx in advance for your patience and answers!
> 
> Regards
> Guenther
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