[Ocfs2-devel] What are the purposes of GLOBAL_INODE_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE and BAD_BLOCK_SYSTEM_INODE system file

[Joseph Qi]

Hi Gang,
GLOBAL_INODE_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE is used for system file inodes
allocation, you can refer mkfs.c for details.

Thanks,
Joseph

On 2016/10/9 16:47, Gang He wrote:
> Hello Guys,
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> If you use debugfs.ocfs2 to list system files for a ocfs2 file system, you can find these two system files.
> sles12sp1-node1:/ # debugfs.ocfs2 /dev/sdb1
> debugfs.ocfs2 1.8.2
> debugfs: ls //
>  6               16   1    2  .
>  6               16   2    2  ..
>  7               24   10   1  bad_blocks             << ==  BAD_BLOCK_SYSTEM_INODE
>  8               32   18   1  global_inode_alloc     << ==  GLOBAL_INODE_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE
>   ....
> 
> But, What are the purposes of GLOBAL_INODE_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE and BAD_BLOCK_SYSTEM_INODE system file?
> For BAD_BLOCK_SYSTEM_INODE system file, it looks to be used to store bad blocks for a file system partition, but from the code, there is not any code for this system file.
> For GLOBAL_INODE_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE system file, there is also not any code for it, what is the purpose of this file ?
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> Thanks
> Gang
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