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inode_sfs(4)


inode (sfs) -- format of an sfs inode

Synopsis

   #include <sys/param.h>
   #include <sys/types.h>
   #include <sys/vnode.h>
   #include <sys/fs/sfs_inode.h>

Description

The inode is the focus of all local file activity in UNIX. There is a unique inode allocated for each active file, each current directory, each mounted-on file, each mapping, and the root of the file system. An inode is `named' by its device/inumber pair. Data in icommon and isecdata (see below) is read into memory from the permanent inode on the actual volume. Data is also written to disk from the inode in memory (the incore inode) when appropriate.

The structure inode represents the incore inode, and contains copies of two disk inodes, whose formats are the structures icommon and i_secure (structure i_secure is referenced from structure inode).

The data in icommon and i_secure is common to the incore and disk inodes. Other information is also stored in the incore inode as shown below.

   struct inode {
   	 /* Filesystem independent view of this inode. */
   	struct inode    *i_forw;        /* hash chain, forward */
   	struct inode    *i_back;        /* hash chain, back */
   	struct inode    *i_freef;       /* free chain, forward */
   	struct inode    *i_freeb;       /* free chain, back */
   	struct vnode    *i_vp;          /* ptr to vnode */
   	struct idata    *i_data;        /* pointer to the pool data      */
   

/* Filesystem dependent view of this inode. */ union i_secure *i_secp; /* extra memory for security data */ struct vnode i_vnode; /* vnode for this inode */

struct vnode *i_devvp; /* vnode for block I/O */ ushort_t i_flag; dev_t i_dev; /* device where inode resides */ ino_t i_number; /* i number, 1-to-1 with device address */ off_t i_diroff; /* offset in dir, where we found last entry */ struct fs *i_fs; /* file sys associated with this inode */ struct dquot *i_dquot; /* quota structure controlling this file */ short i_owner; /* proc index of process locking inode */ short i_count; /* number of inode locks for i_owner */ daddr_t i_nextr; /* next byte read offset (read-ahead) */ ulong i_vcode; /* version code attribute */ long i_mapcnt; /* mappings to file pages */ int *i_map; /* block list for the corresponding file */ int i_opencnt; /* count of opens for this inode */ lid_t i_dirofflid; /* last proc changing i_diroff w/o write access */ clock_t i_stamp /*time when inode was modified but not copied to the buffer cache*/ struct icommon i_ic; };

struct icommon { o_mode_t ic_smode; /* 0: mode and type of file */ short ic_nlink; /* 2: number of links to file */ o_uid_t ic_suid; /* 4: owner's user id */ o_gid_t ic_sgid; /* 6: owner's group id */ quad ic_size; /* 8: number of bytes in file */ time_t ic_atime; /* 16: time last accessed */ long ic_atspare; time_t ic_mtime; /* 24: time last modified */ long ic_mtspare; time_t ic_ctime; /* 32: last time inode changed */ long ic_ctspare; daddr_t ic_db[NDADDR]; /* 40: disk block addresses */ daddr_t ic_ib[NIADDR]; /* 88: indirect blocks */ long ic_flags; /* 100: status, currently unused */ long ic_blocks; /* 104: blocks actually held */ long ic_gen; /* 108: generation number */ mode_t ic_mode; /* 112: EFT version of mode*/ uid_t ic_uid; /* 116: EFT version of uid */ gid_t ic_gid; /* 120: EFT version of gid */ ulong ic_eftflag; /* 124: indicate EFT version*/ };

union i_secure { struct icommon is_com; struct isecdata { lid_t isd_lid; /* Level IDentifier */ long isd_sflags; /* flags */ long isd_aclcnt; /* ACL count */ long isd_daclcnt; /* default ACL count */ daddr_t isd_aclblk; /* extended ACL disk blk */ struct acl isd_acl[NACLI]; /* ACL entries */ lid_t isd_cmwlid; /* Level IDentifier for file CMW */ char isd_filler[8]; /* reserved */ } is_secdata; char is_size[128]; };

The structure dinode represents the disk inode; it is 128 bytes long and is the same as the ufs inode, except that there are two 128-byte inodes allocated on disk for each directory entry.

   struct dinode {
   	union {
   		struct	icommon di_icom;
   		struct	isecdata di_secdata;
   		char	di_size[128];
   	} di_un;
   };

This ``alternate inode'' scheme makes it look like only the even-numbered inodes on disk are used. The first inode (the even-numbered inode) is identical to the ufs inode, and contains all the information in the structure icommon.

The second inode (the ``alternate'', odd-numbered inode) contains the security information in the structure isecdata, shown below.

References

sfs-specific fs_sfs(4)
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