GSoC 2020 Project Update(UFS2): Reading Symboliclinks

Hello Everyone!

This is my another post related to my project, Adding UFS2 file system in Haiku

The link below provides the patches that I have worked on till now.

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Work done till now

The following points briefly describes what I have done till now:

• Reading a symbolic link in a UFS2 formatted disk

  • Implemented ufs2_read_link() in kernel_interface.cpp

• Reading data from block pointers

  • Modified struct ufs2_inode in Inode.h
  • Modified GetBlockPointer(), GetIndirectBlockPointer(), GetDoubleIndirectBlockPtr(), GetTripleIndirectBlockPtr() to get the block pointer from ufs2_inode

• Implemented ReadLink() in Inode.cpp

Reading symbolic links

UFS2 keeps the orignal file’s path in the inode and it can be found in the 15 block pointers. In case of a symbolic link the characters or string is present at the block pointers but in case of file or directory there will be integer value.

I have modified the ufs2_inode stucture in the following way

union data_blocks{

    struct ptr_blocks {
		int64_t directBlkPtr[12]; /* 12 direct block pointers */
		int64_t	indirectBlkPtr;  /* 1 Indirect block pointer */
		int64_t	doubleIndriectBlkPtr; /* 1 Double Indirect block pointer */
		int64_t	tripleIndriectBlkPtr; /* 1 Triple Indirect block pointer */
	}get_blocks;

	char symlinkpath[120];

}_blocks;