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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christopher Haster
a3734eeb34 Added proper handling of orphans
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.
2017-04-18 01:44:01 -05:00
Christopher Haster
8a95fdfdfd Added file read/write tests and some framework updates 2017-03-25 19:23:30 -05:00
Christopher Haster
afa4ad8254 Added a rudimentary test framework
Tests can be found in 'tests/test_blah.sh'
Tests can be run with 'make test'
2017-03-25 19:23:30 -05:00
Christopher Haster
84a57642e5 Restructured the major interfaces of the filesystem 2017-03-25 19:23:26 -05:00
Christopher Haster
106b06a457 Added better handling for metadata pairs
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.
2017-03-19 22:25:36 -05:00
Christopher Haster
160299d35c Initial commit of progress, minimal formatting niave free list 2017-02-26 18:05:27 -06:00
Christopher Haster
02156cb47d Initial commit of block device interface and emulated block device 2017-02-25 14:31:14 -06:00