Re: ext3 structure mapping to block device

2009-08-17 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Manish Katiyar wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:06 AM, ajit mote wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to know how file system structures are mapped to hard disk >> sector. > > Each filesystem deals in the granularity of "block size" which is > generally configu

Re: ext3 structure mapping to block device

2009-08-16 Thread ajit mote
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Manish Katiyar wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:06 AM, ajit mote > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to know how file system structures are mapped to hard disk > > sector. > > Each filesystem deals in the granularity of "block size" which is > general

Re: ext3 structure mapping to block device

2009-08-16 Thread SandeepKsinha
Hi Ajit, On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:06 AM, ajit mote wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to know how file system structures are mapped to hard disk > sector. My goal is to understand how file system is created on block device > and how superblocks are mapped to hard disk sectors. > http://lxr.li

Re: ext3 structure mapping to block device

2009-08-16 Thread Manish Katiyar
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:06 AM, ajit mote wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to know how file system structures are mapped to hard disk > sector. Each filesystem deals in the granularity of "block size" which is generally configurable (typically 4K) during fs creation time. So each block maps to

ext3 structure mapping to block device

2009-08-16 Thread ajit mote
Hello, I would like to know how file system structures are mapped to hard disk sector. My goal is to understand how file system is created on block device and how superblocks are mapped to hard disk sectors. I am not sure whether I stated the problem precisely or not but if I did not described it