Unfortunately, threading all dir blocks in a linked-list did
not come without problems.
While it's possible to atomically add a dir to the linked list
(by adding the new dir into the linked-list position immediately
after it's parent, requiring only one atomic update to the parent
block), it is not easy to make sure the linked-list is in a state
that always allows atomic removal of dirs.
The simple solution is to allow this non-atomic removal, with an
additional step to remove any orphans that could have been created
by a power-loss. This deorphan step is only run if the normal
allocator has failed.
The core algorithim that backs this filesystem's goal of fault
tolerance is the alternating of "metadata pairs". Backed by a
simple core function for reading and writing, makes heavy use
of c99 designated initializers for passing info about multiple
chunks in an erase block.