BART Manifest File Format

Each manifest file entry is a single line, depending on the file type. Each entry begins with fname, which is the name of the file. To prevent parsing problems that are caused by special characters embedded in file names, the file names are encoded. For more information, see BART Rules File Format.

Subsequent fields represent the following file attributes:

type

Type of file with the following possible values:

• B for a block device node

• C for a character device node

• D for a directory

• F for a file

• L for a symbolic link

• P for a pipe

• S for a socket

size

File size in bytes.

mode

Octal number that represents the permissions of the file.

acl

ACL attributes for the file. For a file with ACL attributes, this contains the output from acltotext().

uid

Numerical user ID of the owner of this entry.

gid

Numerical group ID of the owner of this entry.

dirmtime

Last modification time, in seconds, since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970, for directories.

lnmtime

Last modification time, in seconds, since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970, for links.

mtime

Last modification time, in seconds, since 00:00:00 UTC January 1, 1970, for files.

contents

Checksum value of the file. This attribute is only specified for regular files. If you turn off context checking, or if checksums cannot be computed, the value of this field is –.

dest

Destination of a symbolic link.

devnode

Value of the device node. This attribute is for character device files and block device files only.

For more information about BART manifests, see the bart_manifest(4) man page.