XFS (Part 2) – Inodes

In this installment, we will look at the structure of the XFS inode, including extent structures and extended attributes.

Hal Pomeranz · May 23, 2018 · 4:30 PM UTC

Hal Pomeranz · May 23, 2018 · 4:30 PM UTC

Hal Pomeranz @hal_pomeranz

23 May 2018

Replying to @codeslack

Not that I’m aware of at this point. What’s weird is that small directories can be resident, but resident file data is not (currently) supported.

May 23, 2018 · 4:30 PM UTC

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Hal Pomeranz · May 23, 2018 · 9:36 PM UTC

Hal Pomeranz @hal_pomeranz

23 May 2018

xfs_db is really useful for checking your work— I’ve got a patch to allow you to use blockget against a mounted file system or dirty image