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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-06-19 05:51:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-06-19 05:51:12 +0300 |
| commit | 354c6e071be986a44b956f7b57f1884244431048 (patch) | |
| tree | ee7aaea63df3c15d5bf4ce68114de059b2c44549 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst | |
| parent | ace2045ed56f9b00beb4cd23c76a5b6cae69f2fe (diff) | |
| parent | 1f3ddff3755915a2b38de92d53508594de432d3d (diff) | |
| download | linux-354c6e071be986a44b956f7b57f1884244431048.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Fix a variety of bugs, many of which were found by folks using fuzzing
or error injection.
Also fix up how test_dummy_encryption mount option is handled for the
new mount API.
Finally, fix/cleanup a number of comments and ext4 Documentation
files"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix a doubled word "need" in a comment
ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check
ext4: make variable "count" signed
ext4: correct the judgment of BUG in ext4_mb_normalize_request
ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
ext4: fix up test_dummy_encryption handling for new mount API
ext4: use kmemdup() to replace kmalloc + memcpy
ext4: fix super block checksum incorrect after mount
ext4: improve write performance with disabled delalloc
ext4: fix warning when submitting superblock in ext4_commit_super()
ext4, doc: remove unnecessary escaping
ext4: fix incorrect comment in ext4_bio_write_page()
fs: fix jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() kernel-doc comment
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst index ecc0d01a0a72..7a2ef26b064a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ Large Extended Attribute Values To enable ext4 to store extended attribute values that do not fit in the inode or in the single extended attribute block attached to an inode, -the EA\_INODE feature allows us to store the value in the data blocks of +the EA_INODE feature allows us to store the value in the data blocks of a regular file inode. This “EA inode” is linked only from the extended attribute name index and must not appear in a directory entry. The -inode's i\_atime field is used to store a checksum of the xattr value; -and i\_ctime/i\_version store a 64-bit reference count, which enables +inode's i_atime field is used to store a checksum of the xattr value; +and i_ctime/i_version store a 64-bit reference count, which enables sharing of large xattr values between multiple owning inodes. For backward compatibility with older versions of this feature, the -i\_mtime/i\_generation *may* store a back-reference to the inode number -and i\_generation of the **one** owning inode (in cases where the EA +i_mtime/i_generation *may* store a back-reference to the inode number +and i_generation of the **one** owning inode (in cases where the EA inode is not referenced by multiple inodes) to verify that the EA inode is the correct one being accessed. |