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.TH LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_BY_FD 3 2025-03-19 "Lustre User API" "Lustre Library Functions"
.SH NAME
llapi_layout_get_by_fd, llapi_layout_get_by_fid, llapi_layout_get_by_path, llapi_layout_get_by_xattr, \- obtain the layout of a Lustre file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <lustre/lustreapi.h>
.PP
.BI "struct llapi_layout *llapi_layout_get_by_fd(int " fd ,
.BI " enum llapi_layout_get_flags " flags );
.PP
.BI "struct llapi_layout *llapi_layout_get_by_fid(const char *"lustre_path ,
.BI " const struct lu_fid *"fid ,
.BI " enum llapi_layout_get_flags " flags );
.PP
.BI "struct llapi_layout *llapi_layout_get_by_path(const char *"path ,
.BI " enum llapi_layout_get_flags " flags );
.PP
.BI "struct llapi_layout *llapi_layout_get_by_xattr(void *"lov_xattr ,
.BI " ssize_t " lov_xattr_size ,
.BI " enum llapi_layout_get_flags " flags );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The functions
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_xattr() ,
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_fd() ,
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_fid() ,
and
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_path()
return a pointer to a newly-allocated
.B struct llapi_layout
containing the layout information for the file referenced by
.IR lov_xattr ,
.IR fd ,
.IR fid ,
or
.IR path ,
respectively. The
.B struct llapi_layout
is an opaque entity containing the layout information for a file in a
Lustre filesystem. Its internal structure should not be directly
accessed by an application. See
.BR llapi_layout (7).
The pointer should be freed with
.B llapi_layout_free()
when it is no longer needed.
.PP
For
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_xattr() ,
.I lov_xattr
is a Lustre layout extended attribute (LOV EA) from a file or directory in
a Lustre filesystem. The
.I lov_xattr
should be the raw xattr without being byte-swapped, since this function will
swap it to the local machine endianness properly.
.PP
For
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_fd() ,
.I fd
is a valid open file descriptor for a file or directory in a Lustre
filesystem.
.PP
For
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_fid() ,
.I lustre_path
identifies the Lustre filesystem containing the file represented by
.IR fid .
It is typically the filesystem root directory, but may also be any path beneath
the root. Use the function
.BR llapi_path2fid (3)
to obtain a
.B struct lu_fid
associated with a given path.
.PP
The function
.B llapi_layout_get_by_path()
accepts a
.I path
argument that names a file or directory in a Lustre filesystem.
.PP
Zero or more flags may be bitwise-or'd together in
.I flags
to control how a layout is retrieved. Currently
.B llapi_layout_get_by_fd()
and
.B llapi_layout_get_by_fid()
do not accept any values for
.IR flags ,
while
.B llapi_layout_get_by_path()
accepts only one flag as follows:
.TP 5
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_EXPECTED
Unspecified attribute values are replaced by the literal default values
that will be assigned when the file is created or first written to.
A default value is inherited from the parent directory if the attribute
is specified there, otherwise it is inherited from the filesystem root.
This flag is only recognized by
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_path() .
Unspecified attributes may belong to directories and never-written-to
files.
.P
By default, layouts report the abstract value
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_DEFAULT
to indicate an unspecified attribute. Use
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_EXPECTED
to discover the expected literal values for new files in a given
directory. Do not use it if you need to distinguish between specified
and unspecified attributes. The flag has no effect if
.I path
names a file or directory with a fully specified layout.
.P
For concreteness, consider a Lustre filesystem with a default stripe
size of 1048576 and a default stripe count of 1. A user sets the stripe
count for directory D to 2 (thus overriding the filesystem-wide
default) but leaves the stripe size unspecified. Newly created files in
D inherit a stripe count of 2 from D and a stripe size of 1048576 from
the filesystem default. The layout of D returned by
.B llapi_layout_get_by_path(D, 0)
has the abstract stripe size value
.BR LLAPI_LAYOUT_DEFAULT ,
since stripe size is unspecified, while
.B llapi_layout_get_by_path(D, LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_EXPECTED)
reports the literal value 1048576. Both forms report a stripe count
of 2, since that attribute is specified.
.PP
Valid arguments for
.I flags
with
.B llapi_layout_get_by_xattr()
are:
.TP 5
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_CHECK
If the
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_CHECK
flag is set, this function will check whether the objects count in lum
is consistent with the stripe count in lum. This check only apply to
regular files, so it should not be passed if the xattr is a default
layout from a directory.
.TP
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_COPY
If the
.B LLAPI_LAYOUT_GET_COPY
flag is set, this function will use a temporary buffer for byte swapping
when necessary, leaving
.I lov_xattr
unmodified. Otherwise, the byte swapping will be done to the fields of the
.I lov_xattr
buffer directly.
.SH RETURN VALUES
These functions return a valid pointer on success or
.B NULL
on failure with
.B errno
set to an appropriate error code.
.SH ERRORS
.TP 15
.B ENOMEM
Insufficient storage space is available.
.TP
.B ENOTTY
File does not reside on a Lustre filesystem.
.TP
.B ENOENT
.I path
does not exist.
.TP
.B EINVAL
An invalid argument was specified.
.TP
.B EINTR
The kernel returned less than the expected amount of data.
.SH NOTES
When using these functions to copy an existing file's layout to create a
new file with
.B llapi_layout_file_open (3)
for mirroring, migration, or as the template for a new file,
.BR llapi_layout_ost_index_reset (3)
should be called to reset the OST index values for each component, so that
the file copy is not created on exactly the same OSTs as the original file.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_fd(),
.BR llapi_layout_get_by_fid(),
.B llapi_layout_get_by_path()
and
.B llapi_layout_get_by_xattr()
are part of the
.BR lustre (7)
user application interface library since release 2.7.0
.\" Added in commit v2_6_51_0-23-g3d3a37c9c8
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR llapi_layout_file_open (3),
.BR llapi_layout_ost_index_reset (3),
.BR llapi_path2fid (3),
.BR llapi_layout (7),
.BR lustreapi (7)
