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Author SHA1 Message Date
JunChao Sun
6cf3116d5e Documentation: ext4: correct the document about superblock
The description of s_lastcheck_hi, s_first_error_time_hi, and
s_last_error_time_hi fields refer to themselves, while these means
referring to upper 8 bits (byte) of corresponding fields (s_lastcheck,
s_first_error_time, and s_last_error_time). Correct the mistake.

Signed-off-by: JunChao Sun <sunjunchao2870@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220815125233.2040-1-sunjunchao2870@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:42 -06:00
Wang Jianjian
3103084afc ext4, doc: remove unnecessary escaping
Signed-off-by: Wang Jianjian <wangjianjian3@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220520022255.2120576-2-wangjianjian3@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2022-06-16 11:03:17 -04:00
Jan Kara
3a6541e97c ext4: Orphan file documentation
Add documentation about the orphan file feature.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816095713.16537-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-08-30 23:36:51 -04:00
Harshad Shirwadkar
a44ad6835d ext4: describe fast_commit feature flags
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 <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106035911.1942128-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-11-06 23:01:01 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
70cb0d02b5 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.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

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
  ...
2019-09-21 13:37:39 -07:00
Ayush Ranjan
219db95bbe ext4: documentation fixes
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 <ayushr2@illinois.edu>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
2019-08-22 23:18:33 -04:00
Eric Biggers
84fb7ca4b3 ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity
Document the format of verity files on ext4, and the corresponding inode
and superblock flags.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-08-12 19:33:51 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong
8a98ec7c7b docs: promote the ext4 data structures book to top level
Move the ext4 data structures book to Documentation/filesystems/ext4/
since the administrative information moved elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2018-10-05 19:20:08 -04:00