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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index 27d37e7712da..bb14738df358 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -90,5 +90,6 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations. sysfs sysv-fs tmpfs + ubifs-authentication.rst virtiofs vfat diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst index 6a9584f6ff46..16efd729bf7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + :orphan: .. UBIFS Authentication @@ -92,11 +94,11 @@ UBIFS Index & Tree Node Cache ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Basic on-flash UBIFS entities are called *nodes*. UBIFS knows different types -of nodes. Eg. data nodes (`struct ubifs_data_node`) which store chunks of file -contents or inode nodes (`struct ubifs_ino_node`) which represent VFS inodes. -Almost all types of nodes share a common header (`ubifs_ch`) containing basic +of nodes. Eg. data nodes (``struct ubifs_data_node``) which store chunks of file +contents or inode nodes (``struct ubifs_ino_node``) which represent VFS inodes. +Almost all types of nodes share a common header (``ubifs_ch``) containing basic information like node type, node length, a sequence number, etc. (see -`fs/ubifs/ubifs-media.h`in kernel source). Exceptions are entries of the LPT +``fs/ubifs/ubifs-media.h`` in kernel source). Exceptions are entries of the LPT and some less important node types like padding nodes which are used to pad unusable content at the end of LEBs. |