30 Jan
1999
30 Jan
'99
4:38 p.m.
I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
18 May
18 May
5:34 a.m.
I didn't see mention of the flag "HUGE" WRT the V6 file format.
Now I may be being mislead from my memory of Venix 1.x which is
a derivative of V6 (while Venix 2.x is SysIII I think). If the
HUGE bit is set in the i-node, then and only then is the 8th
index pointer treated as the indirection variety. Thus 8 block
or less files I think are directly indexed. -- Ken
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Ken Wellsch wrote:
I didn't see mention of the flag "HUGE"
WRT the V6 file format.
Now I may be being mislead from my memory of Venix 1.x which is
a derivative of V6 (while Venix 2.x is SysIII I think). If the
HUGE bit is set in the i-node, then and only then is the 8th
index pointer treated as the indirection variety. Thus 8 block
or less files I think are directly indexed. -- Ken
I think you're confusing LARGE with HUGE. I don't have my Edition 5
manual handy, but in my Edition 6 manual if the LARGE bit is set then
the first seven inode pointers are indirect blocks (otherwise all
eight blocks are direct), and the eighth block is a double-indirect block.
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I didn't see mention of the flag "HUGE"
WRT the V6 file format.
Now I may be being mislead from my memory of Venix 1.x which is
a derivative of V6 (while Venix 2.x is SysIII I think). If the
HUGE bit is set in the i-node, then and only then is the 8th
index pointer treated as the indirection variety. Thus 8 block
or less files I think are directly indexed. -- Ken
Hmm... I wrote a disk image editor in Visual Basic without knowing the
specs for the filesystem -- I set it up so that if the 9th pointer is zero
and the filesize is greater than one block, then it assumed the block
pointed to by the 8th pointer was a list of blocks in the file.
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