2.3.32.1 EXTENTS

The EXTENTS data element is as follows.

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	1 0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	2 0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	3 0	1
NextVcn
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Lcn
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NextVcn (8 bytes): A 64-bit signed integer that contains the VCN at which the next extent begins. This value minus either StartingVcn (for the first Extents array element) or the NextVcn of the previous element of the array (for all other Extents array elements) is the length in clusters of the current extent.

Lcn (8 bytes): A 64-bit signed integer that contains the logical cluster number (LCN) at which the current extent begins on the volume. A 64-bit value of -1 indicates either a compression unit that is partially allocated or an unallocated region of a sparse file. For more information about sparse files, see [SPARSE]. Compression is performed in 16-cluster units. If a given 16-cluster unit compresses to fit in, for example, 9 clusters, there will be a 7-cluster extent of the file with an LCN of -1.

This message also returns a status code as specified in section 2.2. Upon success, the status code returned by the function that processes this FSCTL is STATUS_SUCCESS. The most common error codes are listed in the following table.

Error code	Meaning
STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL 0xC0000023	The output buffer is too small to contain a RETRIEVAL_POINTERS_BUFFER structure.
STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER 0xC000000D	The input buffer is too small to contain a STARTING_VCN_INPUT_BUFFER, or the StartingVcn given is negative, or the handle is not to a file or directory.
STATUS_END_OF_FILE 0xC0000011	The stream is resident in the MFT and has no clusters allocated, or the starting VCN is beyond the end of the file.
STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW 0x80000005	The output buffer filled before all the extents for this file were returned.