Project 4: File System Checking
In this project, you will be developing a program to check the file system consistency. The program, called as fcheck, reads a file system image and checks its consistency.
When the image is not consistent, fcheck should output appropriate error message.
You can do this project individually or with a partner. You cannot share your work with anyone other than your project partner.
This project should be developed in any of the cs* machines, but executed only in net* machines.
A Basic Checker
For this project, you will use an xv6 file system image as the basic image that you will be reading and checking. The file include/fs.h includes the basic structures you need to understand, including the superblock, on disk inode format (struct dinode), and directory entry format (struct dirent). The file ‘tools/mkfs.c’ will also be useful to look at, in order to see how an empty file-system image is created.
Much of this project will be puzzling out the exact on-disk format xv6 uses for its simple file system, and then writing checks to see if various parts of that structure are consistent. Thus, reading through mkfs.c and the file system code itself will help you understand how xv6 uses the bits in the image to record persistent information.
Your program should read through the file system image and determine the consistency of a number of things, including the following. When a problem is detected, print the error message, exactly as shown below in bold, to standard error and exit immediately with exit code 1 (i.e., call exit(1)).
Each inode is either unallocated or one of the valid types (T_FILE, T_DIR, T_DEV). If not, print ERROR: bad inode.
For in-use inodes, each address that is used by the inode is valid (points to a valid datablock address within the image). If the direct block is used and is invalid, print ERROR: bad direct address in inode.; if the indirect block is in use and is invalid, print ERROR: bad indirect address in inode.
Root directory exists, its inode number is 1, and the parent of the root directory is itself. If not, print ERROR: root directory does not exist.
Each directory contains . and .. entries, and the . entry points to the directory itself. If not, print ERROR: directory not properly formatted.
For in-use inodes, each address in use is also marked in use in the bitmap. If not, print ERROR: address used by inode but marked free in bitmap.
For blocks marked in-use in bitmap, the block should actually be in-use in an inode or indirect block somewhere. If not, print ERROR: bitmap marks block in use but it is not in use.
For in-use inodes, each direct address in use is only used once. If not, print ERROR: direct address used more than once.
For in-use inodes, each indirect address in use is only used once. If not, print ERROR: indirect address used more than once.
For all inodes marked in use, each must be referred to in at least one directory. If not, print ERROR: inode marked use but not found in a directory.
For each inode number that is referred to in a valid directory, it is actually marked in use. If not, print ERROR: inode referred to in directory but marked free.
Reference counts (number of links) for regular files match the number of times file is referred to in directories (i.e., hard links work correctly). If not, print ERROR: bad reference count for file.
No extra links allowed for directories (each directory only appears in one other directory). If not, print ERROR: directory appears more than once in file system.
Ensure your output the error message exactly as specified (including the ‘.’ at the end.) We will use automated script to grade your program. If the output does not match the expected output for a test case, it will show that your program failed the test case.
Other Specifications
Your program must be invoked exactly as follows:
This output must be printed to standard error and exit with the error code of 1.
If the file system image does not exist, you should print image not found. to standard error and exit with the error code of 1.
If fcheck detects any one of the 12 errors above, it should print the specific error to standard error and exit with error code 1.
If fcheck detects none of the problems listed above, it should exit with return code of 0 and not print anything.
Hints
It may be worth looking into using mmap() for the project. Using mmap() to access the file- system image will make your (kernel programming) life so much better.
Make sure to look at fs.img, which is a file system image created when you make xv6 by the tool mkfs (found in the tools/directory of xv6). The output of this tool is the
file fs.img and it is a consistent file-system image. The tests, of course, will put inconsistencies into this image, but your tool should work over a consistent image as well. Study mkfs and its output to progress well on this project.
xv6 Source code
The xv6 source code for this project is the same code you used for P1, and can be found in /cs5348-xv6/src/xv6.tar.gz. Copy this file to your local working directory for this project and extract the source code tree, and run ‘make’ to create the fs.img.
Testing
Make sure you compile your program as follows:
gcc fcheck.c -o fcheck -Wall -Werror -O
Sample file images with inconsistencies will be made available in the directory
/cs5348-xv6/src/testscripts/P4/
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