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authorAyush Ranjan <ayushr2@illinois.edu>2019-08-23 06:18:33 +0300
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2019-08-23 06:18:33 +0300
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parent7963e5ac901251c7a3b36fe7c987623a3f309393 (diff)
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ext4: documentation fixes
This commit aims to fix the following issues in ext4 documentation: - Flexible block group docs said that the aim was to group block metadata together instead of block group metadata. - The documentation consistly uses "location" instead of "block number". It is easy to confuse location to be an absolute offset on disk. Added a line to clarify all location values are in terms of block numbers. - Dirent2 docs said that the rec_len field is shortened instead of the name_len field. - Typo in bg_checksum description. - Inode size is 160 bytes now, and hence i_extra_isize is now 32. - Cluster size formula was incorrect, it did not include the +10 to s_log_cluster_size value. - Typo: there were two s_wtime_hi in the superblock struct. - Superblock struct was outdated, added the new fields which were part of s_reserved earlier. - Multiple mount protection seems to be implemented in fs/ext4/mmp.c. Signed-off-by: Ayush Ranjan <ayushr2@illinois.edu> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ is at most 263 bytes long, though on disk you'll need to reference
- File name.
Since file names cannot be longer than 255 bytes, the new directory
-entry format shortens the rec\_len field and uses the space for a file
+entry format shortens the name\_len field and uses the space for a file
type flag, probably to avoid having to load every inode during directory
tree traversal. This format is ``ext4_dir_entry_2``, which is at most
263 bytes long, though on disk you'll need to reference