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authorAyush Ranjan <ayushranjan@google.com>2019-07-11 15:04:23 -0700
committergVisor bot <gvisor-bot@google.com>2019-07-11 15:05:36 -0700
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parenta018b229b57dff92ca0d99079180aa556dacbabc (diff)
ext: boilerplate code.
Renamed ext4 to ext since we are targeting ext(2/3/4). Removed fs.go since we are targeting VFS2. Added ext.go with filesystem struct. PiperOrigin-RevId: 257689775
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+// Copyright 2019 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package disklayout provides Linux ext file system's disk level structures
+// which can be directly read into from the underlying device. Structs aim to
+// emulate structures `exactly` how they are layed out on disk.
+//
+// This library aims to be compatible with all ext(2/3/4) systems so it
+// provides a generic interface for all major structures and various
+// implementations (for different versions). The user code is responsible for
+// using appropriate implementations based on the underlying device.
+//
+// Interfacing all major structures here serves a few purposes:
+// - Abstracts away the complexity of the underlying structure from client
+// code. The client only has to figure out versioning on set up and then
+// can use these as black boxes and pass it higher up the stack.
+// - Having pointer receivers forces the user to use pointers to these
+// heavy structs. Hence, prevents the client code from unintentionally
+// copying these by value while passing the interface around.
+// - Version-based implementation selection is resolved on set up hence
+// avoiding per call overhead of choosing implementation.
+// - All interface methods are pretty light weight (do not take in any
+// parameters by design). Passing pointer arguments to interface methods
+// can lead to heap allocation as the compiler won't be able to perform
+// escape analysis on an unknown implementation at compile time.
+//
+// Notes:
+// - All fields in these structs are exported because binary.Read would
+// panic otherwise.
+// - All structures on disk are in little-endian order. Only jbd2 (journal)
+// structures are in big-endian order.
+// - All OS dependent fields in these structures will be interpretted using
+// the Linux version of that field.
+// - The suffix `Lo` in field names stands for lower bits of that field.
+// - The suffix `Hi` in field names stands for upper bits of that field.
+// - The suffix `Raw` has been added to indicate that the field is not split
+// into Lo and Hi fields and also to resolve name collision with the
+// respective interface.
+package disklayout