kernel/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems/ext4, branch v5.10.258

ext4, doc: fix incorrect h_reserved size

2022-04-27T11:53:57+00:00

commit 7102ffe4c166ca0f5e35137e9f9de83768c2d27d upstream. According to document and code, ext4_xattr_header's size is 32 bytes, so h_reserved size should be 3. Signed-off-by: Wang Jianjian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/92fcc3a6-7d77-8c09-4126-377fcb4c46a5@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: describe fast_commit feature flags

2020-11-07T04:01:01+00:00

Fast commit feature has flags in the file system as well in JBD2. The meaning of fast commit feature flags can get confusing. Update docs and code to add more documentation about it. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106035911.1942128-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

doc: update ext4 and journalling docs to include fast commit feature

2020-10-22T03:19:43+00:00

This patch adds necessary documentation for fast commits. Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015203802.3597742-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

2020-08-06T05:01:57+00:00

Rationale: Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. Deterministic algorithm: For each file: If not .svg: For each line: If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions return 200 OK and serve the same content: Replace HTTP with HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706190339.20709-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

fs/ext4: Disallow verity if inode is DAX

2020-05-29T02:09:47+00:00

Verity and DAX are incompatible. Changing the DAX mode due to a verity flag change is wrong without a corresponding address_space_operations update. Make the 2 options mutually exclusive by returning an error if DAX was set first. (Setting DAX is already disabled if Verity is set first.) Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528150003.828793-3-ira.weiny@intel.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2019-09-21T20:37:39+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information about the state of the extent status cache. Dropped workaround for pre-1970 dates which were encoded incorrectly in pre-4.4 kernels. Since both the kernel correctly generates, and e2fsck detects and fixes this issue for the past four years, it'e time to drop the workaround. (Also, it's not like files with dates in the distant past were all that common in the first place.) A lot of miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups, including some ext4 Documentation fixes. Also included are two minor bug fixes in fs/unicode" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits) unicode: make array 'token' static const, makes object smaller unicode: Move static keyword to the front of declarations ext4: add missing bigalloc documentation. ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag ext4: fix integer overflow when calculating commit interval ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity jbd2: add missing tracepoint for reserved handle ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages ext4: documentation fixes ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data ext4: fix warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio ext4: set error return correctly when ext4_htree_store_dirent fails ext4: drop legacy pre-1970 encoding workaround ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE jbd2: flush_descriptor(): Do not decrease buffer head's ref count ext4: remove unnecessary error check ...

ext4: add missing bigalloc documentation.

2019-09-07T15:56:47+00:00

There was a broken link for bigalloc. The page https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Bigalloc was not migrated into the current documentation sources. This patch adds the contents of that missing page into the section for Bigalloc itself. Signed-off-by: Ayush Ranjan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190831154419.GA30357@fa19-cs241-404.cs.illinois.edu Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: documentation fixes

2019-08-23T03:18:33+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger

ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity

2019-08-13T02:33:51+00:00

Document the format of verity files on ext4, and the corresponding inode and superblock flags. Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables

2019-06-26T22:08:22+00:00

There's no need to use a .rst on Sphinx toc tables. As most of the Documentation don't use, remove the remaing occurrences. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet