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authorDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2018-07-29 15:39:00 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2018-07-29 15:39:00 -0400
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ext4: import superblocks chapter from wiki page
Import the chapter about superblocks from the on-disk format wiki page into the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Global Structures
+=================
+
+The filesystem is sharded into a number of block groups, each of which
+have static metadata at fixed locations.
+
+.. include:: super.rst