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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-06-18 21:51:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-06-18 21:51:12 -0500 |
| commit | 354c6e071be986a44b956f7b57f1884244431048 (patch) | |
| tree | ee7aaea63df3c15d5bf4ce68114de059b2c44549 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst | |
| parent | ace2045ed56f9b00beb4cd23c76a5b6cae69f2fe (diff) | |
| parent | 1f3ddff3755915a2b38de92d53508594de432d3d (diff) | |
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Fix a variety of bugs, many of which were found by folks using fuzzing
or error injection.
Also fix up how test_dummy_encryption mount option is handled for the
new mount API.
Finally, fix/cleanup a number of comments and ext4 Documentation
files"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix a doubled word "need" in a comment
ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check
ext4: make variable "count" signed
ext4: correct the judgment of BUG in ext4_mb_normalize_request
ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
ext4: fix up test_dummy_encryption handling for new mount API
ext4: use kmemdup() to replace kmalloc + memcpy
ext4: fix super block checksum incorrect after mount
ext4: improve write performance with disabled delalloc
ext4: fix warning when submitting superblock in ext4_commit_super()
ext4, doc: remove unnecessary escaping
ext4: fix incorrect comment in ext4_bio_write_page()
fs: fix jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() kernel-doc comment
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst index d1075178ce0b..a728af0d2fd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inlinedata.rst @@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ file is smaller than 60 bytes, then the data are stored inline in attribute space, then it might be found as an extended attribute “system.data” within the inode body (“ibody EA”). This of course constrains the amount of extended attributes one can attach to an inode. -If the data size increases beyond i\_block + ibody EA, a regular block +If the data size increases beyond i_block + ibody EA, a regular block is allocated and the contents moved to that block. Pending a change to compact the extended attribute key used to store inline data, one ought to be able to store 160 bytes of data in a -256-byte inode (as of June 2015, when i\_extra\_isize is 28). Prior to +256-byte inode (as of June 2015, when i_extra_isize is 28). Prior to that, the limit was 156 bytes due to inefficient use of inode space. The inline data feature requires the presence of an extended attribute @@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ for “system.data”, even if the attribute value is zero length. Inline Directories ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The first four bytes of i\_block are the inode number of the parent +The first four bytes of i_block are the inode number of the parent directory. Following that is a 56-byte space for an array of directory entries; see ``struct ext4_dir_entry``. If there is a “system.data” attribute in the inode body, the EA value is an array of ``struct ext4_dir_entry`` as well. Note that for inline directories, the -i\_block and EA space are treated as separate dirent blocks; directory +i_block and EA space are treated as separate dirent blocks; directory entries cannot span the two. Inline directory entries are not checksummed, as the inode checksum |