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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-24 19:42:24 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-24 19:42:24 +0300 |
commit | 5993692f09582accb4cb7af11d344598af43c3b8 (patch) | |
tree | 062447eb44769d6da6e50302853eac1bb1d6e5d3 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4/blocks.rst | |
parent | d6edff78fe9e34dbea1bec7dc26cfce92c6d96d5 (diff) | |
parent | 33458eaba4dfe778a426df6a19b7aad2ff9f7eec (diff) | |
download | linux-5993692f09582accb4cb7af11d344598af43c3b8.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
- further restructure ext4 documentation
- fix up ext4's delayed allocation for bigalloc file systems
- fix up some syzbot-detected races in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT,
EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT, and ext4_remount
- ... and a few other miscellaneous bugs and optimizations.
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
ext4: fix use-after-free race in ext4_remount()'s error path
ext4: cache NULL when both default_acl and acl are NULL
docs: promote the ext4 data structures book to top level
docs: move ext4 administrative docs to admin-guide/
jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
ext4: propagate error from dquot_initialize() in EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR
ext4: fix setattr project check in fssetxattr ioctl
docs: make ext4 readme tables readable
docs: fix ext4 documentation table formatting problems
docs: generate a separate ext4 pdf file from the documentation
ext4: convert fault handler to use vm_fault_t type
ext4: initialize retries variable in ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin()
ext4: fix EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
ext4: fix build error when DX_DEBUG is defined
ext4: fix argument checking in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting at page invalidation time
ext4: adjust reserved cluster count when removing extents
ext4: reduce reserved cluster count by number of allocated clusters
ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting at delayed write time
ext4: add new pending reservation mechanism
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/blocks.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/blocks.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..73d4dc0f7bda --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/blocks.rst @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Blocks +------ + +ext4 allocates storage space in units of “blocks”. A block is a group of +sectors between 1KiB and 64KiB, and the number of sectors must be an +integral power of 2. Blocks are in turn grouped into larger units called +block groups. Block size is specified at mkfs time and typically is +4KiB. You may experience mounting problems if block size is greater than +page size (i.e. 64KiB blocks on a i386 which only has 4KiB memory +pages). By default a filesystem can contain 2^32 blocks; if the '64bit' +feature is enabled, then a filesystem can have 2^64 blocks. + +For 32-bit filesystems, limits are as follows: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 1 1 1 1 1 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Item + - 1KiB + - 2KiB + - 4KiB + - 64KiB + * - Blocks + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + * - Inodes + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + * - File System Size + - 4TiB + - 8TiB + - 16TiB + - 256PiB + * - Blocks Per Block Group + - 8,192 + - 16,384 + - 32,768 + - 524,288 + * - Inodes Per Block Group + - 8,192 + - 16,384 + - 32,768 + - 524,288 + * - Block Group Size + - 8MiB + - 32MiB + - 128MiB + - 32GiB + * - Blocks Per File, Extents + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + * - Blocks Per File, Block Maps + - 16,843,020 + - 134,480,396 + - 1,074,791,436 + - 4,398,314,962,956 (really 2^32 due to field size limitations) + * - File Size, Extents + - 4TiB + - 8TiB + - 16TiB + - 256TiB + * - File Size, Block Maps + - 16GiB + - 256GiB + - 4TiB + - 256TiB + +For 64-bit filesystems, limits are as follows: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 1 1 1 1 1 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Item + - 1KiB + - 2KiB + - 4KiB + - 64KiB + * - Blocks + - 2^64 + - 2^64 + - 2^64 + - 2^64 + * - Inodes + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + * - File System Size + - 16ZiB + - 32ZiB + - 64ZiB + - 1YiB + * - Blocks Per Block Group + - 8,192 + - 16,384 + - 32,768 + - 524,288 + * - Inodes Per Block Group + - 8,192 + - 16,384 + - 32,768 + - 524,288 + * - Block Group Size + - 8MiB + - 32MiB + - 128MiB + - 32GiB + * - Blocks Per File, Extents + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + - 2^32 + * - Blocks Per File, Block Maps + - 16,843,020 + - 134,480,396 + - 1,074,791,436 + - 4,398,314,962,956 (really 2^32 due to field size limitations) + * - File Size, Extents + - 4TiB + - 8TiB + - 16TiB + - 256TiB + * - File Size, Block Maps + - 16GiB + - 256GiB + - 4TiB + - 256TiB + +Note: Files not using extents (i.e. files using block maps) must be +placed within the first 2^32 blocks of a filesystem. Files with extents +must be placed within the first 2^48 blocks of a filesystem. It's not +clear what happens with larger filesystems. |