Some musings on what to do.

internal/inode/process.go

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ import (
 //
 //Info holds the actual Inode. Due to each inode type being a different type, it's store as an interface{}
 type Inode struct {
-	Info interface{} //Info is the parsed specific data. It's type is defined by Type.
 	Header
+	Info interface{} //Info is the parsed specific data. It's type is defined by Type.
 }
 
 //ProcessInode tries to read an inode from the BlockReader

writer.go

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ type Writer struct {
 	uidGUIDTable []int
 	frags        []fragment
 	superblock   superblock
+	rootInode    inode.Inode
 	//since we need some information from the actually compressed and writen data for tables
 	//we need to write the data FIRST, but make sure there's enough space for the tables.
 	dataOffset      int

writer_inodes.go

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package squashfs
 import (
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"io"
+
+	"github.com/CalebQ42/squashfs/internal/inode"
 )
 
 func (w *Writer) countInodes() (out uint32) {
@@ -13,14 +15,10 @@ func (w *Writer) countInodes() (out uint32) {
 	return
 }
 
-func (w *Writer) calculateInodeTableSize() (out int, err error) {
-	for _, files := range w.structure {
-		for i := range files {
-			_ = i
-			//set up each file's inode and add it's binary.size to out
-			out += binary.Size(files[i].inode)
-		}
-	}
+func (w *Writer) setupInodes() (size int, err error) {
+	w.rootInode.Type = inode.DirType
+	//setup
+	size += binary.Size(w.rootInode)
 	return
 }
 

writer_write.go

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ func (w *Writer) WriteTo(write io.WriterAt) (int64, error) {
 	}
 	w.dataOffset = 96 //superblock size
 	//write compression options
-	w.calculateInodeTableSize()
+	//write/calculate compressed data sizes
+
 	return 0, errors.New("i said don't")
 }