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## littlefs technical specification
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This is the technical specification of the little filesystem. This document
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covers the technical details of how the littlefs is stored on disk for
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introspection and tooling. This document assumes you are familiar with the
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design of the littlefs, for more info on how littlefs works check
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out [DESIGN.md](DESIGN.md).
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```
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| | | .---._____
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.-----. | |
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--|o |---| littlefs |
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--| |---| |
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'-----' '----------'
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| | |
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```
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## Some quick notes
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- littlefs is a block-based filesystem. The disk is divided into an array of
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evenly sized blocks that are used as the logical unit of storage.
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- Block pointers are stored in 32 bits, with the special value `0xffffffff`
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representing a null block address.
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- In addition to the logical block size (which usually matches the erase
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block size), littlefs also uses a program block size and read block size.
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These determine the alignment of block device operations, but don't need
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to be consistent for portability.
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- By default, all values in littlefs are stored in little-endian byte order.
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## Directories / Metadata pairs
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Metadata pairs form the backbone of littlefs and provide a system for
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distributed atomic updates. Even the superblock is stored in a metadata pair.
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As their name suggests, a metadata pair is stored in two blocks, with one block
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providing a backup during erase cycles in case power is lost. These two blocks
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are not necessarily sequential and may be anywhere on disk, so a "pointer" to a
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metadata pair is stored as two block pointers.
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On top of this, each metadata block behaves as an appendable log, containing a
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variable number of commits. Commits can be appended to the metadata log in
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order to update the metadata without requiring an erase cycles. Note that
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successive commits may supersede the metadata in previous commits. Only the
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most recent metadata should be considered valid.
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The high-level layout of a metadata block is fairly simple:
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```
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.---------------------------------------.
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.-| revision count | entries | \
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| |-------------------+ | |
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| | | |
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| | | +-- 1st commit
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| | | |
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| | +-------------------| |
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| | | CRC | /
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| |-------------------+-------------------|
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| | entries | \
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| | | |
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| | | +-- 2nd commit
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| | +-------------------+--------------| |
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| | | CRC | padding | /
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| |----+-------------------+--------------|
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| | entries | \
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| | | |
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| | | +-- 3rd commit
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| | +-------------------+---------| |
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| | | CRC | | /
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| |---------+-------------------+ |
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| | unwritten storage | more commits
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| | | |
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| | | v
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| | |
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| | |
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| '---------------------------------------'
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'---------------------------------------'
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```
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Each metadata block contains a 32-bit revision count followed by a number of
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commits. Each commit contains a variable number of metadata entries followed
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by a 32-bit CRC.
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Note also that entries aren't necessarily word-aligned. This allows us to
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store metadata more compactly, however we can only write to addresses that are
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aligned to our program block size. This means each commit may have padding for
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alignment.
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Metadata block fields:
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1. **Revision count (32-bits)** - Incremented every erase cycle. If both blocks
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contain valid commits, only the block with the most recent revision count
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should be used. Sequence comparison must be used to avoid issues with
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integer overflow.
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2. **CRC (32-bits)** - Detects corruption from power-loss or other write
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issues. Uses a CRC-32 with a polynomial of `0x04c11db7` initialized
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with `0xffffffff`.
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Entries themselves are stored as a 32-bit tag followed by a variable length
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blob of data. But exactly how these tags are stored is a little bit tricky.
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Metadata blocks support both forward and backward iteration. In order to do
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this without duplicating the space for each tag, neighboring entries have their
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tags XORed together, starting with `0xffffffff`.
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```
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Forward iteration Backward iteration
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.-------------------. 0xffffffff .-------------------.
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| revision count | | | revision count |
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|-------------------| v |-------------------|
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| tag ~A |---> xor -> tag A | tag ~A |---> xor -> 0xffffffff
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|-------------------| | |-------------------| ^
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| data A | | | data A | |
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| | | | | |
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| | | | | |
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|-------------------| v |-------------------| |
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| tag AxB |---> xor -> tag B | tag AxB |---> xor -> tag A
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|-------------------| | |-------------------| ^
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| data B | | | data B | |
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| | | | | |
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| | | | | |
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|-------------------| v |-------------------| |
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| tag BxC |---> xor -> tag C | tag BxC |---> xor -> tag B
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|-------------------| |-------------------| ^
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| data C | | data C | |
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| | | | tag C
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| | | |
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| | | |
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'-------------------' '-------------------'
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```
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One last thing to note before we get into the details around tag encoding. Each
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tag contains a valid bit used to indicate if the tag and containing commit is
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valid. This valid bit is the first bit found in the tag and the commit and can
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be used to tell if we've attempted to write to the remaining space in the
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block.
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Here's a more complete example of metadata block containing 4 entries:
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```
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.---------------------------------------.
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.-| revision count | tag ~A | \
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| |-------------------+-------------------| |
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| | data A | |
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| | | |
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| |-------------------+-------------------| |
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| | tag AxB | data B | <--. |
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| |-------------------+ | | |
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| | | | +-- 1st commit
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| | +-------------------+---------| | |
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| | | tag BxC | | <-.| |
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| |---------+-------------------+ | || |
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| | data C | || |
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| | | || |
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| |-------------------+-------------------| || |
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| | tag CxCRC | CRC | || /
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| |-------------------+-------------------| ||
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| | tag CRCxA' | data A' | || \
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| |-------------------+ | || |
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| | | || |
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| | +-------------------+----| || +-- 2nd commit
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| | | tag CRCxA' | | || |
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| |--------------+-------------------+----| || |
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| | CRC | padding | || /
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| |--------------+----+-------------------| ||
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| | tag CRCxA'' | data A'' | <---. \
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| |-------------------+ | ||| |
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| | | ||| |
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| | +-------------------+---------| ||| |
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| | | tag A''xD | | < ||| |
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| |---------+-------------------+ | |||| +-- 3rd commit
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| | data D | |||| |
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| | +---------| |||| |
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| | | tag Dx| |||| |
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| |---------+-------------------+---------| |||| |
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| |CRC | CRC | | |||| /
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| |---------+-------------------+ | ||||
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| | unwritten storage | |||| more commits
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| | | |||| v
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| '---------------------------------------' ||||
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'---------------------------------------' |||'- most recent A
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||'-- most recent B
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|'--- most recent C
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'---- most recent D
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```
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## Metadata tags
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So in littlefs, 32-bit tags describe every type of metadata. And this means
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_every_ type of metadata, including file entries, directory fields, and
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global state. Even the CRCs used to mark the end of commits get their own tag.
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Because of this, the tag format contains some densely packed information. Note
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that there are multiple levels of types which break down into more info:
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```
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[---- 32 ----]
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[1|-- 11 --|-- 10 --|-- 10 --]
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^. ^ . ^ ^- length
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|. | . '------------ id
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|. '-----.------------------ type (type3)
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'.-----------.------------------ valid bit
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[-3-|-- 8 --]
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^ ^- chunk
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'------- type (type1)
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```
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Before we go further, there's one important thing to note. These tags are
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**not** stored in little-endian. Tags stored in commits are actually stored
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in big-endian (and is the only thing in littlefs stored in big-endian). This
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little bit of craziness comes from the fact that the valid bit must be the
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first bit in a commit, and when converted to little-endian, the valid bit finds
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itself in byte 4. We could restructure the tag to store the valid bit lower,
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but, because none of the fields are byte-aligned, this would be more
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complicated than just storing the tag in big-endian.
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Another thing to note is that both the tags `0x00000000` and `0xffffffff` are
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invalid and can be used for null values.
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Metadata tag fields:
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1. **Valid bit (1-bit)** - Indicates if the tag is valid.
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2. **Type3 (11-bits)** - Type of the tag. This field is broken down further
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into a 3-bit abstract type and an 8-bit chunk field. Note that the value
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`0x000` is invalid and not assigned a type.
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1. **Type1 (3-bits)** - Abstract type of the tag. Groups the tags into
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8 categories that facilitate bitmasked lookups.
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2. **Chunk (8-bits)** - Chunk field used for various purposes by the different
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abstract types. type1+chunk+id form a unique identifier for each tag in the
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metadata block.
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3. **Id (10-bits)** - File id associated with the tag. Each file in a metadata
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block gets a unique id which is used to associate tags with that file. The
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special value `0x3ff` is used for any tags that are not associated with a
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file, such as directory and global metadata.
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4. **Length (10-bits)** - Length of the data in bytes. The special value
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`0x3ff` indicates that this tag has been deleted.
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## Metadata types
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What follows is an exhaustive list of metadata in littlefs.
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---
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#### `0x401` LFS_TYPE_CREATE
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Creates a new file with this id. Note that files in a metadata block
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don't necessarily need a create tag. All a create does is move over any
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files using this id. In this sense a create is similar to insertion into
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an imaginary array of files.
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The create and delete tags allow littlefs to keep files in a directory
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ordered alphabetically by filename.
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---
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#### `0x4ff` LFS_TYPE_DELETE
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Deletes the file with this id. An inverse to create, this tag moves over
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any files neighboring this id similar to a deletion from an imaginary
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array of files.
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---
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#### `0x0xx` LFS_TYPE_NAME
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Associates the id with a file name and file type.
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The data contains the file name stored as an ASCII string (may be expanded to
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UTF8 in the future).
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The chunk field in this tag indicates an 8-bit file type which can be one of
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the following.
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Currently, the name tag must precede any other tags associated with the id and
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can not be reassigned without deleting the file.
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Layout of the name tag:
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```
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tag data
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[-- 32 --][--- variable length ---]
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[1| 3| 8 | 10 | 10 ][--- (size * 8) ---]
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^- size ^- file name
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| | | '------ id
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| | '----------- file type
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| '-------------- type1 (0x0)
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'----------------- valid bit
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```
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Name fields:
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1. **file type (8-bits)** - Type of the file.
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2. **file name** - File name stored as an ASCII string.
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---
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#### `0x001` LFS_TYPE_REG
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Initializes the id + name as a regular file.
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How each file is stored depends on its struct tag, which is described below.
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---
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#### `0x002` LFS_TYPE_DIR
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Initializes the id + name as a directory.
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Directories in littlefs are stored on disk as a linked-list of metadata pairs,
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each pair containing any number of files in alphabetical order. A pointer to
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the directory is stored in the struct tag, which is described below.
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---
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#### `0x0ff` LFS_TYPE_SUPERBLOCK
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Initializes the id as a superblock entry.
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The superblock entry is a special entry used to store format-time configuration
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and identify the filesystem.
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The name is a bit of a misnomer. While the superblock entry serves the same
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purpose as a superblock found in other filesystems, in littlefs the superblock
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does not get a dedicated block. Instead, the superblock entry is duplicated
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across a linked-list of metadata pairs rooted on the blocks 0 and 1. The last
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metadata pair doubles as the root directory of the filesystem.
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```
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.--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
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.| super |->| super |->| super |->| super |->| file B |
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|| block | || block | || block | || block | || file C |
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|| | || | || | || file A | || file D |
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|'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------'
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'--------' '--------' '--------' '--------' '--------'
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\----------------+----------------/ \----------+----------/
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superblock pairs root directory
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```
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The filesystem starts with only the root directory. The superblock metadata
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pairs grow every time the root pair is compacted in order to prolong the
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life of the device exponentially.
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The contents of the superblock entry are stored in a name tag with the
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superblock type and an inline-struct tag. The name tag contains the magic
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string "littlefs", while the inline-struct tag contains version and
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configuration information.
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Layout of the superblock name tag and inline-struct tag:
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```
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tag data
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[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
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[1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 ][--- 64 ---]
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^ ^ ^ ^- size (8) ^- magic string ("littlefs")
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| | '------ id (0)
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| '------------ type (0x0ff)
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'----------------- valid bit
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tag data
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[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
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[1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 ][-- 32 --|-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^- version ^- block size ^- block count
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| | | | [-- 32 --|-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
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| | | | [-- 32 --|-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
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| | | | ^- name max ^- file max ^- attr max
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| | | '- size (24)
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| | '------ id (0)
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| '------------ type (0x201)
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'----------------- valid bit
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```
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Superblock fields:
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1. **Magic string (8-bytes)** - Magic string indicating the presence of
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littlefs on the device. Must be the string "littlefs".
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2. **Version (32-bits)** - The version of littlefs at format time. The version
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is encoded in a 32-bit value with the upper 16-bits containing the major
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version, and the lower 16-bits containing the minor version.
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This specification describes version 2.0 (`0x00020000`).
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3. **Block size (32-bits)** - Size of the logical block size used by the
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filesystem in bytes.
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4. **Block count (32-bits)** - Number of blocks in the filesystem.
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5. **Name max (32-bits)** - Maximum size of file names in bytes.
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6. **File max (32-bits)** - Maximum size of files in bytes.
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7. **Attr max (32-bits)** - Maximum size of file attributes in bytes.
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The superblock must always be the first entry (id 0) in a metadata pair as well
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as be the first entry written to the block. This means that the superblock
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entry can be read from a device using offsets alone.
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---
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#### `0x2xx` LFS_TYPE_STRUCT
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Associates the id with an on-disk data structure.
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The exact layout of the data depends on the data structure type stored in the
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chunk field and can be one of the following.
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Any type of struct supersedes all other structs associated with the id. For
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example, appending a ctz-struct replaces an inline-struct on the same file.
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---
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#### `0x200` LFS_TYPE_DIRSTRUCT
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Gives the id a directory data structure.
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Directories in littlefs are stored on disk as a linked-list of metadata pairs,
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each pair containing any number of files in alphabetical order.
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```
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v
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.--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
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.| file A |->| file D |->| file G |->| file I |->| file J |->| file M |
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|| file B | || file E | || file H | || | || file K | || file N |
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|| file C | || file F | || | || | || file L | || |
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|'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------'
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'--------' '--------' '--------' '--------' '--------' '--------'
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```
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The dir-struct tag contains only the pointer to the first metadata-pair in the
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directory. The directory size is not known without traversing the directory.
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The pointer to the next metadata-pair in the directory is stored in a tail tag,
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which is described below.
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Layout of the dir-struct tag:
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```
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tag data
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[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
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[1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 ][--- 64 ---]
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^ ^ ^ ^- size (8) ^- metadata pair
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| | '------ id
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| '------------ type (0x200)
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'----------------- valid bit
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```
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Dir-struct fields:
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1. **Metadata pair (8-bytes)** - Pointer to the first metadata-pair
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in the directory.
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---
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#### `0x201` LFS_TYPE_INLINESTRUCT
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Gives the id an inline data structure.
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Inline structs store small files that can fit in the metadata pair. In this
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case, the file data is stored directly in the tag's data area.
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Layout of the inline-struct tag:
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```
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tag data
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[-- 32 --][--- variable length ---]
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[1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 ][--- (size * 8) ---]
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^ ^ ^ ^- size ^- inline data
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| | '------ id
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| '------------ type (0x201)
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'----------------- valid bit
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```
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Inline-struct fields:
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1. **Inline data** - File data stored directly in the metadata-pair.
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---
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#### `0x202` LFS_TYPE_CTZSTRUCT
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Gives the id a CTZ skip-list data structure.
|
||||
|
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CTZ skip-lists store files that can not fit in the metadata pair. These files
|
||||
are stored in a skip-list in reverse, with a pointer to the head of the
|
||||
skip-list. Note that the head of the skip-list and the file size is enough
|
||||
information to read the file.
|
||||
|
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How exactly CTZ skip-lists work is a bit complicated. A full explanation can be
|
||||
found in the [DESIGN.md](DESIGN.md#ctz-skip-lists).
|
||||
|
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A quick summary: For every _n_‍th block where _n_ is divisible by
|
||||
2‍_ˣ_, that block contains a pointer to block _n_-2‍_ˣ_.
|
||||
These pointers are stored in increasing order of _x_ in each block of the file
|
||||
before the actual data.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
|
||||
v
|
||||
.--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
|
||||
| A |<-| D |<-| G |<-| J |<-| M |<-| P |
|
||||
| B |<-| E |--| H |<-| K |--| N | | Q |
|
||||
| C |<-| F |--| I |--| L |--| O | | |
|
||||
'--------' '--------' '--------' '--------' '--------' '--------'
|
||||
block 0 block 1 block 2 block 3 block 4 block 5
|
||||
1 skip 2 skips 1 skip 3 skips 1 skip
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Note that the maximum number of pointers in a block is bounded by the maximum
|
||||
file size divided by the block size. With 32 bits for file size, this results
|
||||
in a minimum block size of 104 bytes.
|
||||
|
||||
Layout of the CTZ-struct tag:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
tag data
|
||||
[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
|
||||
[1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 ][-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
|
||||
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^- file size
|
||||
| | | | '-------------------- file head
|
||||
| | | '- size (8)
|
||||
| | '------ id
|
||||
| '------------ type (0x202)
|
||||
'----------------- valid bit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
CTZ-struct fields:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **File head (32-bits)** - Pointer to the block that is the head of the
|
||||
file's CTZ skip-list.
|
||||
|
||||
2. **File size (32-bits)** - Size of the file in bytes.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x3xx` LFS_TYPE_USERATTR
|
||||
|
||||
Attaches a user attribute to an id.
|
||||
|
||||
littlefs has a concept of "user attributes". These are small user-provided
|
||||
attributes that can be used to store things like timestamps, hashes,
|
||||
permissions, etc.
|
||||
|
||||
Each user attribute is uniquely identified by an 8-bit type which is stored in
|
||||
the chunk field, and the user attribute itself can be found in the tag's data.
|
||||
|
||||
There are currently no standard user attributes and a portable littlefs
|
||||
implementation should work with any user attributes missing.
|
||||
|
||||
Layout of the user-attr tag:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
tag data
|
||||
[-- 32 --][--- variable length ---]
|
||||
[1| 3| 8 | 10 | 10 ][--- (size * 8) ---]
|
||||
^ ^ ^ ^ ^- size ^- attr data
|
||||
| | | '------ id
|
||||
| | '----------- attr type
|
||||
| '-------------- type1 (0x3)
|
||||
'----------------- valid bit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
User-attr fields:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Attr type (8-bits)** - Type of the user attributes.
|
||||
|
||||
2. **Attr data** - The data associated with the user attribute.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x6xx` LFS_TYPE_TAIL
|
||||
|
||||
Provides the tail pointer for the metadata pair itself.
|
||||
|
||||
The metadata pair's tail pointer is used in littlefs for a linked-list
|
||||
containing all metadata pairs. The chunk field contains the type of the tail,
|
||||
which indicates if the following metadata pair is a part of the directory
|
||||
(hard-tail) or only used to traverse the filesystem (soft-tail).
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
.--------.
|
||||
.| dir A |-.
|
||||
||softtail| |
|
||||
.--------| |-'
|
||||
| |'--------'
|
||||
| '---|--|-'
|
||||
| .-' '-------------.
|
||||
| v v
|
||||
| .--------. .--------. .--------.
|
||||
'->| dir B |->| dir B |->| dir C |
|
||||
||hardtail| ||softtail| || |
|
||||
|| | || | || |
|
||||
|'--------' |'--------' |'--------'
|
||||
'--------' '--------' '--------'
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Currently any type supersedes any other preceding tails in the metadata pair,
|
||||
but this may change if additional metadata pair state is added.
|
||||
|
||||
A note about the metadata pair linked-list: Normally, this linked-list contains
|
||||
every metadata pair in the filesystem. However, there are some operations that
|
||||
can cause this linked-list to become out of sync if a power-loss were to occur.
|
||||
When this happens, littlefs sets the "sync" flag in the global state. How
|
||||
exactly this flag is stored is described below.
|
||||
|
||||
When the sync flag is set:
|
||||
|
||||
1. The linked-list may contain an orphaned directory that has been removed in
|
||||
the filesystem.
|
||||
2. The linked-list may contain a metadata pair with a bad block that has been
|
||||
replaced in the filesystem.
|
||||
|
||||
If the sync flag is set, the threaded linked-list must be checked for these
|
||||
errors before it can be used reliably. Note that the threaded linked-list can
|
||||
be ignored if littlefs is mounted read-only.
|
||||
|
||||
Layout of the tail tag:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
tag data
|
||||
[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
|
||||
[1| 3| 8 | 10 | 10 ][--- 64 ---]
|
||||
^ ^ ^ ^ ^- size (8) ^- metadata pair
|
||||
| | | '------ id
|
||||
| | '---------- tail type
|
||||
| '------------- type1 (0x6)
|
||||
'---------------- valid bit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Tail fields:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Tail type (8-bits)** - Type of the tail pointer.
|
||||
|
||||
2. **Metadata pair (8-bytes)** - Pointer to the next metadata-pair.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x600` LFS_TYPE_SOFTTAIL
|
||||
|
||||
Provides a tail pointer that points to the next metadata pair in the
|
||||
filesystem.
|
||||
|
||||
In this case, the next metadata pair is not a part of our current directory
|
||||
and should only be followed when traversing the entire filesystem.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x601` LFS_TYPE_HARDTAIL
|
||||
|
||||
Provides a tail pointer that points to the next metadata pair in the
|
||||
directory.
|
||||
|
||||
In this case, the next metadata pair belongs to the current directory. Note
|
||||
that because directories in littlefs are sorted alphabetically, the next
|
||||
metadata pair should only contain filenames greater than any filename in the
|
||||
current pair.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x7xx` LFS_TYPE_GSTATE
|
||||
|
||||
Provides delta bits for global state entries.
|
||||
|
||||
littlefs has a concept of "global state". This is a small set of state that
|
||||
can be updated by a commit to _any_ metadata pair in the filesystem.
|
||||
|
||||
The way this works is that the global state is stored as a set of deltas
|
||||
distributed across the filesystem such that the global state can be found by
|
||||
the xor-sum of these deltas.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
.--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
|
||||
.| |->| gdelta |->| |->| gdelta |->| gdelta |
|
||||
|| | || 0x23 | || | || 0xff | || 0xce |
|
||||
|| | || | || | || | || |
|
||||
|'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------' |'--------'
|
||||
'--------' '----|---' '--------' '----|---' '----|---'
|
||||
v v v
|
||||
0x00 --> xor ------------------> xor ------> xor --> gstate = 0x12
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Note that storing globals this way is very expensive in terms of storage usage,
|
||||
so any global state should be kept very small.
|
||||
|
||||
The size and format of each piece of global state depends on the type, which
|
||||
is stored in the chunk field. Currently, the only global state is move state,
|
||||
which is outlined below.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x7ff` LFS_TYPE_MOVESTATE
|
||||
|
||||
Provides delta bits for the global move state.
|
||||
|
||||
The move state in littlefs is used to store info about operations that could
|
||||
cause to filesystem to go out of sync if the power is lost. The operations
|
||||
where this could occur is moves of files between metadata pairs and any
|
||||
operation that changes metadata pairs on the threaded linked-list.
|
||||
|
||||
In the case of moves, the move state contains a tag + metadata pair describing
|
||||
the source of the ongoing move. If this tag is non-zero, that means that power
|
||||
was lost during a move, and the file exists in two different locations. If this
|
||||
happens, the source of the move should be considered deleted, and the move
|
||||
should be completed (the source should be deleted) before any other write
|
||||
operations to the filesystem.
|
||||
|
||||
In the case of operations to the threaded linked-list, a single "sync" bit is
|
||||
used to indicate that a modification is ongoing. If this sync flag is set, the
|
||||
threaded linked-list will need to be checked for errors before it can be used
|
||||
reliably. The exact cases to check for are described above in the tail tag.
|
||||
|
||||
Layout of the move state:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
tag data
|
||||
[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|-- 32 --|-- 32 --]
|
||||
[1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 ][1|- 11 -| 10 | 10 |--- 64 ---]
|
||||
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^- padding (0) ^- metadata pair
|
||||
| | | | | | '------ move id
|
||||
| | | | | '------------ move type
|
||||
| | | | '----------------- sync bit
|
||||
| | | |
|
||||
| | | '- size (12)
|
||||
| | '------ id (0x3ff)
|
||||
| '------------ type (0x7ff)
|
||||
'----------------- valid bit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Move state fields:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Sync bit (1-bit)** - Indicates if the metadata pair threaded linked-list
|
||||
is in-sync. If set, the threaded linked-list should be checked for errors.
|
||||
|
||||
2. **Move type (11-bits)** - Type of move being performed. Must be either
|
||||
`0x000`, indicating no move, or `0x4ff` indicating the source file should
|
||||
be deleted.
|
||||
|
||||
3. **Move id (10-bits)** - The file id being moved.
|
||||
|
||||
4. **Metadata pair (8-bytes)** - Pointer to the metadata-pair containing
|
||||
the move.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
#### `0x5xx` LFS_TYPE_CRC
|
||||
|
||||
Last but not least, the CRC tag marks the end of a commit and provides a
|
||||
checksum for any commits to the metadata block.
|
||||
|
||||
The first 32-bits of the data contain a CRC-32 with a polynomial of
|
||||
`0x04c11db7` initialized with `0xffffffff`. This CRC provides a checksum for
|
||||
all metadata since the previous CRC tag, including the CRC tag itself. For
|
||||
the first commit, this includes the revision count for the metadata block.
|
||||
|
||||
However, the size of the data is not limited to 32-bits. The data field may
|
||||
larger to pad the commit to the next program-aligned boundary.
|
||||
|
||||
In addition, the CRC tag's chunk field contains a set of flags which can
|
||||
change the behaviour of commits. Currently the only flag in use is the lowest
|
||||
bit, which determines the expected state of the valid bit for any following
|
||||
tags. This is used to guarantee that unwritten storage in a metadata block
|
||||
will be detected as invalid.
|
||||
|
||||
Layout of the CRC tag:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
tag data
|
||||
[-- 32 --][-- 32 --|--- variable length ---]
|
||||
[1| 3| 8 | 10 | 10 ][-- 32 --|--- (size * 8 - 32) ---]
|
||||
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^- crc ^- padding
|
||||
| | | | '- size
|
||||
| | | '------ id (0x3ff)
|
||||
| | '----------- valid state
|
||||
| '-------------- type1 (0x5)
|
||||
'----------------- valid bit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
CRC fields:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Valid state (1-bit)** - Indicates the expected value of the valid bit for
|
||||
any tags in the next commit.
|
||||
|
||||
2. **CRC (32-bits)** - CRC-32 with a polynomial of `0x04c11db7` initialized
|
||||
with `0xffffffff`.
|
||||
|
||||
3. **Padding** - Padding to the next program-aligned boundary. No guarantees
|
||||
are made about the contents.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
Reference in New Issue
Block a user