+ * This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+ * the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+ * Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
+ * later version.
+ *
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+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+ * details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file contains logic to deal with WIM directory entries, or "dentries":
+ *
+ * - Reading a dentry tree from a metadata resource in a WIM file
+ * - Writing a dentry tree to a metadata resource in a WIM file
+ * - Iterating through a tree of WIM dentries
+ * - Path lookup: translating a path into a WIM dentry or inode
+ * - Creating, modifying, and deleting WIM dentries
+ *
+ * Notes:
+ *
+ * - A WIM file can contain multiple images, each of which has an independent
+ * tree of dentries. "On disk", the dentry tree for an image is stored in
+ * the "metadata resource" for that image.
+ *
+ * - Multiple dentries in an image may correspond to the same inode, or "file".
+ * When this occurs, it means that the file has multiple names, or "hard
+ * links". A dentry is not a file, but rather the name of a file!
+ *
+ * - Inodes are not represented explicitly in the WIM file format. Instead,
+ * the metadata resource provides a "hard link group ID" for each dentry.
+ * wimlib handles pulling out actual inodes from this information, but this
+ * occurs in inode_fixup.c and not in this file.