1 Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS)
6 OMFS is a filesystem created by SonicBlue for use in the ReplayTV DVR
7 and Rio Karma MP3 player. The filesystem is extent-based, utilizing
8 block sizes from 2k to 8k, with hash-based directories. This
9 filesystem driver may be used to read and write disks from these
12 Note, it is not recommended that this FS be used in place of a general
13 filesystem for your own streaming media device. Native Linux filesystems
14 will likely perform better.
16 More information is available at:
18 http://linux-karma.sf.net/
20 Various utilities, including mkomfs and omfsck, are included with
21 omfsprogs, available at:
23 http://bobcopeland.com/karma/
25 Instructions are included in its README.
30 OMFS supports the following mount-time options:
32 uid=n - make all files owned by specified user
33 gid=n - make all files owned by specified group
34 umask=xxx - set permission umask to xxx
35 fmask=xxx - set umask to xxx for files
36 dmask=xxx - set umask to xxx for directories
41 OMFS discriminates between "sysblocks" and normal data blocks. The sysblock
42 group consists of super block information, file metadata, directory structures,
43 and extents. Each sysblock has a header containing CRCs of the entire
44 sysblock, and may be mirrored in successive blocks on the disk. A sysblock may
45 have a smaller size than a data block, but since they are both addressed by the
46 same 64-bit block number, any remaining space in the smaller sysblock is
49 Sysblock header information:
52 __be64 h_self; /* FS block where this is located */
53 __be32 h_body_size; /* size of useful data after header */
54 __be16 h_crc; /* crc-ccitt of body_size bytes */
56 u8 h_version; /* version, always 1 */
57 char h_type; /* OMFS_INODE_X */
58 u8 h_magic; /* OMFS_IMAGIC */
59 u8 h_check_xor; /* XOR of header bytes before this */
63 Files and directories are both represented by omfs_inode:
66 struct omfs_header i_head; /* header */
67 __be64 i_parent; /* parent containing this inode */
68 __be64 i_sibling; /* next inode in hash bucket */
69 __be64 i_ctime; /* ctime, in milliseconds */
71 char i_type; /* OMFS_[DIR,FILE] */
74 char i_name[OMFS_NAMELEN]; /* filename */
75 __be64 i_size; /* size of file, in bytes */
78 Directories in OMFS are implemented as a large hash table. Filenames are
79 hashed then prepended into the bucket list beginning at OMFS_DIR_START.
80 Lookup requires hashing the filename, then seeking across i_sibling pointers
81 until a match is found on i_name. Empty buckets are represented by block
82 pointers with all-1s (~0).
84 A file is an omfs_inode structure followed by an extent table beginning at
87 struct omfs_extent_entry {
88 __be64 e_cluster; /* start location of a set of blocks */
89 __be64 e_blocks; /* number of blocks after e_cluster */
93 __be64 e_next; /* next extent table location */
94 __be32 e_extent_count; /* total # extents in this table */
96 struct omfs_extent_entry e_entry; /* start of extent entries */
99 Each extent holds the block offset followed by number of blocks allocated to
100 the extent. The final extent in each table is a terminator with e_cluster
101 being ~0 and e_blocks being ones'-complement of the total number of blocks
104 If this table overflows, a continuation inode is written and pointed to by
105 e_next. These have a header but lack the rest of the inode structure.