1 Sep 22:15
Tux3 command interpreter
Daniel Phillips <phillips <at> phunq.net>
2008-09-01 20:15:02 GMT
2008-09-01 20:15:02 GMT
Tux3 now has a command interpreter to aid in debugging, with commands like: tux3 make foodev that makes a filesystem on device foodev, which can also be a file. It normally is a file for me and I make it sparse like this: dd if=/dev/zero of=foodev bs=1 count=1 seek=100K I can see how many blocks tux3 actually used in it by: du foodev less the few blocks that the sparse file has for metatdata and the little blob of data at the end that dd puts there. (I don't know how to make dd truncate without writing, I am not sure it is possible.) Then: echo "hello world!" | tux3 write foodev foo creates and writes to file foo in foodev. A subsequent write will fail with EEXIST, which is maybe not quite what we want. Finally: tux3 read foodev foo outputs "hello world!". The following command sequence is particularly interesting: tux3 make --blocksize 256 foodev echo hello | tux3 write --seek 72057594037927930 foodev foo tux3 read --seek 72057594037927930 foodev foo It writes "hello" into the last few bytes of a 64 Petabyte file, the largest that Tux3 can create with 256 byte blocksUsing "du foodev" before and after creating and writing to its filesystem shows that Tux3 only used 8K for the entire filesystem including the multi-petabyte sparse file, root directory, inode table and allocation bitmaps. To build tux3: g99 -g -Wall -lpopt buffer.c diskio.c tux3.c -otux3 Regards, Daniel
Using "du foodev" before and after creating and writing to its
filesystem shows that Tux3 only used 8K for the entire filesystem
including the multi-petabyte sparse file, root directory, inode table
and allocation bitmaps.
To build tux3:
g99 -g -Wall -lpopt buffer.c diskio.c tux3.c -otux3
Regards,
Daniel
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