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uniFS stands for Universal FileSystem.
Spec
uniFS is a table-filesystem where each entry points to a portion of a file, this allows loading parts of the file progressively. If any of the tables is damaged, a checksum every 8 entries is made to ensure nothing is wrong. uniFS splits the entries into more entries (yeah). This solves the problem of "what happens if i have a 90-byte entry, but there is a small gap?". This ensures no gaps in the disk are left.
This filesystem also tries to be simple as possible, and be compatible with 16-bit hosts as well as 64-bit ones.
Entry
struct unifs_entry {
uint8_t reserved; // Should always be 0xCC
uint8_t entry_type; // Type of entry
uint32_t name_len; // Length of the name (variable, upon the OS how to handle)
uint64_t nn_entry; // Next part of this entry (pointer)
uint64_t next_entry; // Next entry in the table (pointer)
};
- nn_entry should be set to 0 if this is the final part of the entry.
- next_entry should be set to 0 if this is the final part of the chain of entries.
Entry types
Following the entry_t header, follows the contents of the entry. Notice that these varies in size, but always should align to 8-bytes.
If entry_type is set to ENTRY_TYPE_FILEMETADATA (0xF0):
struct unifs_entry_filemetadata {
uint64_t filename_len; // length of filename
uint64_t len; // length of file in bytes
uint8_t filename[filename_len]; // variable size, kernel should alloc memory for incoming filename
};
- Filename should be ended with a NULL character
If entry_type is set to ENTRY_TYPE_FILEPART (0xF2):
struct unifs_entry_filepart {
uint64_t clen; // Length of the bytes of the file
uint8_t content[clen]; // variable size, kernel should alloc memory for incoming file content
uint16_t checksum; // verifies that the data in the file is correct (First byte of content ANDed by the last one)
uint8_t perm; // use for unix permissions
};
If entry type is set to ENTRY_TYPE_DIRECTORYMETADATA (0xF4):
struct unifs_entry_directorymetadata {
uint64_t dirname_len; // length of dirname
uint8_t dirname[dirname_len]; // variable size, kernel should alloc memory for incoming dirname
uint8_t perm; // use for unix permissions
};