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| author | Scott Shawcroft <scott@tannewt.org> | 2021-08-24 00:13:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Christopher Haster <chaster@utexas.edu> | 2022-02-19 06:13:41 +0300 |
| commit | 1877c40aacafd74f55ba4607e2b34f1505aef20b (patch) | |
| tree | 913aefc650b4f4baa26619aef930769b3c81b0cb /SPEC.md | |
| parent | ead50807f1ca3fdf2da00b77a0ce02651ded2d13 (diff) | |
Indent sub-portions of tag fields
This makes the bit breakdown clearer.
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| -rw-r--r-- | SPEC.md | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -233,19 +233,19 @@ Metadata tag fields: into a 3-bit abstract type and an 8-bit chunk field. Note that the value `0x000` is invalid and not assigned a type. -3. **Type1 (3-bits)** - Abstract type of the tag. Groups the tags into - 8 categories that facilitate bitmasked lookups. + 1. **Type1 (3-bits)** - Abstract type of the tag. Groups the tags into + 8 categories that facilitate bitmasked lookups. -4. **Chunk (8-bits)** - Chunk field used for various purposes by the different - abstract types. type1+chunk+id form a unique identifier for each tag in the - metadata block. + 2. **Chunk (8-bits)** - Chunk field used for various purposes by the different + abstract types. type1+chunk+id form a unique identifier for each tag in the + metadata block. -5. **Id (10-bits)** - File id associated with the tag. Each file in a metadata +3. **Id (10-bits)** - File id associated with the tag. Each file in a metadata block gets a unique id which is used to associate tags with that file. The special value `0x3ff` is used for any tags that are not associated with a file, such as directory and global metadata. -6. **Length (10-bits)** - Length of the data in bytes. The special value +4. **Length (10-bits)** - Length of the data in bytes. The special value `0x3ff` indicates that this tag has been deleted. ## Metadata types |