anyfs_inode_table(5)

NAME
anyfs_inode_table - external inode table for anyfs filesystem
 used by utilities of anyfs-tools package

SYNOPSIS
anyfs_inode_table

DESCRIPTION
External inode table contains information about file blocks location, directory structure and access permissions. File structure is text-binary. I.e. despite the fact that file containing maybe easy viewed with plain text editor, its editing produce some trouble so as there are strict field size fixation and links -- numbers meaning offset in bytes. All numbers in this file is hexadecimal. Look at file structure more detailed. File consists of 4 sections with fixed headers: 1) BLOCK_SIZE, then after space there is 32-bit number (eight hex-digits) -- filesystem blocksize and end of line. 2) INODES, then after space there is also 32-bit number -- number of inodes in filesystem, and end of line 3) INODE_TABLE, after that there is end of line and yet INODES lines describing each inode. 4) DATA, end of line and variable number of lines describing directory structure and symbolic links. Inode description line in INODE_TABLE section consists of nine numbers divided with spaces. Total the line length -- 72 + end of line (73-th symbol). Meaning of the nine fields is next: 1) 16-bit number (4 digits) -- protection with mode_t type. The field bits meaning described in stat(2). 2) 16-bit number (4 digits) -- user ID of file owner UID. 3) 16-bit number (4 digits) -- group ID of file owner GID. 4) 64-bit number (16 digits) -- file size. 5) 32-bit number (8 digits) -- time of last access atime. 6) 32-bit number (8 digits) -- time of last modification mtime. 7) 32-bit number (8 digits) -- time of last status change ctime. 8) 16-bit number (4 digits) -- number of hard links. 9) 32-bit number (8 digits) has two possibly meaning:
    a) in case of regular files, symbolic links and directories, is link to additional information for this inode in DATA section. The link is offset in bytes from beginning of DATA section, i.e. beginning from first line after DATA header.
    b) in case of special files of devices, this field keeps device type (value of dev_t type) In DATA section keeps additional information for directories, symbolic links and regular files: a) for directories description begins with fixed header: DIR, after that there is 32-bit number (8 digits) -- number of entries in the directory (entries), end of line, after that also yet entries lines -- description of each entries.
Directory entry description consists of 1) file name -- string with null-terminating; 2) 32-bit number -- inode number. b) symbolic link description begins from fixed header LNK, after that there are space, value of link -- string with null-terminating. c) for regular files description begins from fixed header REG, after that there are space, 32-bit number (8 digits) -- number of file fragments (frags), end of line, after that yet frags lines with description of each fragments. A fragment description consist of 2 32-bit numbers divided with spaces: 1) device block number, in which locates the first block of file fragment (besides zero must be interpreted as fragment of sparse-blocks); 2) count of blocks in fragment -- all this blocks locates at device continuously, following one after one.

AUTHOR
Nikolaj Krivchenkov aka unDEFER <undefer@gmail.com>

BUG REPORTS
Messages about any problem with using anyfs-tools package send to undefer@gmail.com

AVAILABILITY
You can obtain the last version of package at http://anyfs-tools.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO
anyfs-tools(8), stat(2)