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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
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