Terry Lambert wrote: > "Wilkinson,Alex" wrote: > >>Thanks for that. >> >>Do you know if UFS2 dynamically allocates inodes ? > > > No; it gets them from the prereserved inodes area that is ? AFAIK, it *does* dynamically allocate inodes. > the result of the "-i" parameter. The "newfs" program has > not changed that significantly, though the superblock has > changed some. > > However, realize that the size of the on disk inode has > doubled in size (from 128 to 256 bytes) because of the new > pointer 64 bit indices. > > You should probably look at /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/dinode.h. > > Also, realize that almost all the other code is the same; > in other words, it's important to know that we are talking > about "UFS2", and *NOT* talking about "FFS2". > > In other words, this is about a flat numeric namespace for > files, and the FFS directory structure information that's > layered on top is not really variant, except as necessary > due to implicit layering (a grep for "UFS2" in the files in > /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs is informative). > > -- Terry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo_at_tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral_at_tcoip.com.br dcs_at_tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs_at_newsguy.com dcs_at_freebsd.org capo_at_notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Everyone's in a high place when you're on your knees.Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 03:28:33 UTC
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