4. Dynamic Structures

Dynamic metadata are created on the fly when files and blocks are allocated to files.

• 4.1. Index Nodes
  • 4.1.1. Inode Size
  • 4.1.2. Finding an Inode
  • 4.1.3. Inode Timestamps
• 4.2. The Contents of inode.i_block
  • 4.2.1. Symbolic Links
  • 4.2.2. Direct/Indirect Block Addressing
  • 4.2.3. Extent Tree
  • 4.2.4. Inline Data
• 4.3. Directory Entries
  • 4.3.1. Linear (Classic) Directories
  • 4.3.2. Hash Tree Directories
• 4.4. Extended Attributes
  • 4.4.1. Attribute Name Indices
  • 4.4.2. POSIX ACLs