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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst index 614034e24669..073940cc64ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst @@ -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 |