Linux File Systems

Name: Linux File Systems
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ISBN: 9780072129557

ISBN-10: 0072129557

ISBN-13: 9780072129557

Edition: 2001

Authors: Moshe Bar

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Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Gnu/Linux and File Systems	p. 2
Purpose of this Book	p. 3
Who Should Read this Book	p. 4
What You Should Know Before Reading this Book	p. 4
What this Book Contains	p. 4
How to Use this Book	p. 4
Where to Find More Information	p. 5
Suggestions, Comments	p. 5
Open Source--Implications For a Modern Operating System	p. 5
History of Linux	p. 6
Functionality Provided by Linux Today	p. 7
Novelties in the 2.4 Kernel	p. 8
Compiling a Kernel	p. 11
Source Code Tree Structure	p. 12
The arch/ Directory	p. 17
The drivers/ Directory	p. 17
The fs/ Directory	p. 17
The include/ Directory	p. 17
The ipc/ Directory	p. 17
The init/ Directory	p. 17
The lib/ Directory	p. 18
The kernel/ Directory	p. 18
The mm/ Directory	p. 18
The net/ Directory	p. 19
Compiling It	p. 19
The GNU gcc Compiler	p. 20
Coding Conventions	p. 20
Architecture Dependencies	p. 21
What's a File System?	p. 23
General Aspects of a File System	p. 24
The Hierarchy of the File Structure	p. 25
Objects in a File System	p. 28
Buffers, Caches, and Memory Garbage Collection	p. 29
The Buffer Cache	p. 29
The bdflush Kernel Daemon	p. 32
Kswapd	p. 33
File System Objects	p. 33
Files	p. 35
File Functions	p. 37
Inodes	p. 40
Functions on Inodes	p. 45
File Systems	p. 49
Names or dentrys	p. 52
Dentry Structure	p. 52
Dentry Functions	p. 55
The Linux Super-Block	p. 57
The Super-Block Structure	p. 57
Super-Block Functions	p. 60
Performance Issues and Optimization Strategies	p. 63
Raw I/O	p. 64
Process Resource Limits	p. 65
Extent-Based Allocation (General)	p. 66
Block-Based Allocation (General)	p. 67
The Transaction-Processing or Database Issue of Safety	p. 68
Advantages of Journaling over Non-Journaling	p. 69
The Linux VFS	p. 75
General Concepts	p. 76
The VFS Source Code	p. 76
How VFS Works	p. 78
Source Files include/linux/fs.h (2.4.3)	p. 86
Source file fs/ext2/super.c (2.4.3)	p. 113
Source file fs/ext2/file.c (2.4.3)	p. 130
Source Code open_namei() function from fs/namei.c	p. 132
LVM (Logical Volume Manager)	p. 137
Linux LVM Introduction	p. 138
LVM Benefits	p. 141
How does LVM work?	p. 141
LVM Internals	p. 142
Source Code include/linux/lvm.h	p. 146
RAID with Linux	p. 163
PCI Controllers	p. 164
SCSI-to-SCSI Controllers	p. 165
Software RAID	p. 166
Striping	p. 168
RAID 0 Configuration	p. 168
RAID 1 Configuration	p. 169
Limits Of RAID	p. 170
Recovering from RAID Device Failure	p. 171
Case A	p. 172
Case B	p. 173
The Second Extended File System (ext2)	p. 181
New Features	p. 182
Standard ext2fs Features	p. 182
Advanced ext2fs Features	p. 182
Directories	p. 183
Blocks	p. 184
The Super-Block	p. 186
The Ext2fs Library	p. 188
The Ext2fs Tools	p. 189
The Inode in ext2fs	p. 192
The ext2fs Super-block	p. 192
The ext2 Group Descriptor	p. 193
Free Blocks Count, Free Inodes Count, Used Directory Count	p. 194
Changing the Size of a File in an ext2 File System	p. 194
Group Descriptors	p. 199
Bitmaps	p. 200
Inodes	p. 200
Directories	p. 202
Allocation algorithms	p. 203
Error Handling	p. 204
Source Code include/linux/ext2_fs.h	p. 205
IBM's JFS Journaling File System for Linux	p. 219
The Main JFS Data Structures and Algorithms	p. 220
Super-blocks: Primary Aggregate Super-block and Secondary Aggregate Super-block	p. 220
Inodes	p. 220
Standard Administrative Utilities	p. 221
How JFS Is Set up at Boot Time	p. 222
Block Allocation Map	p. 222
Inode Allocation Map	p. 223
AG Free Inode List	p. 224
IAG Free List	p. 224
Fileset Allocation Map Inodes	p. 224
Design Features that Distinguish JFS from Other File Systems	p. 225
JFS's Further Extensive Use of B+-Trees	p. 226
Leaf Nodes	p. 227
Internal Nodes	p. 227
Variable Block Size	p. 228
Directory Organization	p. 228
JFS's Support for both Sparse and Dense Files	p. 228
Aggregates and Filesets	p. 229
Files	p. 229
Directory	p. 229
Logs	p. 230
The File Structure and Access Control	p. 230
ReiserFS for Linux	p. 233
The File System Name Space	p. 234
Block Alignments of File Boundaries	p. 235
Balanced Trees and Large File I/O	p. 236
Serialization and Consistency	p. 237
Tree Definitions	p. 238
Buffering and the Preserve List	p. 241
ReiserFS Structures	p. 241
Using the Tree to Optimize Layout of Files	p. 245
Physical Layout	p. 245
Node Layout	p. 245
Installing and Configuring ReiserFS on a Linux Kernel	p. 251
Linux-2.2.X Kernels	p. 251
Linux-2.4.0 to 2.4.2	p. 253
XFS	p. 255
The XFS Implementation	p. 257
Log Manager	p. 258
Buffer Cache Manager	p. 259
Lock Manager	p. 259
Space Manager	p. 259
Attribute Manager	p. 260
Name Space Manager	p. 261
Administration of XFS File Systems	p. 262
XFS Structures and Methods	p. 262
Inode Data Structure	p. 262
Inode Life Cycle	p. 263
Inode Allocation	p. 264
Inode In-line Data/Extents/B-tree Root	p. 265
Inode locking	p. 267
Inode Transactions and Logging	p. 267
Inode Flushing	p. 268
Inode Recycling	p. 269
The XFS Super-block Structures and Methods	p. 269
The Super-block Buffer	p. 270
Super-block Management Interfaces	p. 271
Structures on Disk	p. 272
Allocation Group Header	p. 274
Data Block Freelist	p. 275
Inode Table	p. 275
Data and Attribute Block Representation	p. 277
File System Structure	p. 278
Buffering vs. Allocation	p. 278
XFS Availability and Release Caveats	p. 279
Working with XFS	p. 279
Partitioning	p. 279
The Software-RAID HOWTO	p. 281
Table of Contents	p. 282
Introduction	p. 283
Why RAID?	p. 285
Hardware issues	p. 288
RAID setup	p. 290
Testing	p. 302
Reconstruction	p. 303
Performance	p. 304
Credits	p. 306
References	p. 307
The Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO	p. 313
Table of Contents	p. 314
Introduction	p. 315
Principles of Loopback Devices and Ramdisks	p. 315
How To Create a Loopback Root Device	p. 317
Booting the System	p. 324
Other Loopback Root Device Possibilities	p. 325
Linux Partition HOWTO	p. 327
Table of Contents	p. 328
Introduction	p. 328
What is a partition anyway?	p. 329
What Partitions do I need?	p. 332
An example	p. 336
How I did it on my machine	p. 337
Index	p. 339
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