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Linus Torvalds bc2c6421cb The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir
feature, which allows ext4 directories to support over 2 billion
 directory entries (assuming ~64 byte file names; in practice, users
 will run into practical performance limits first.)  This feature was
 originally written by the Lustre team, and credit goes to Artem
 Blagodarenko from Seagate for getting this feature upstream.
 
 The second major major feature allows ext4 to support extended
 attribute values up to 64k.  This feature was also originally from
 Lustre, and has been enhanced by Tahsin Erdogan from Google with a
 deduplication feature so that if multiple files have the same xattr
 value (for example, Windows ACL's stored by Samba), only one copy will
 be stored on disk for encoding and caching efficiency.
 
 We also have the usual set of bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations.
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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:
 "The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir
  feature, which allows ext4 directories to support over 2 billion
  directory entries (assuming ~64 byte file names; in practice, users
  will run into practical performance limits first.) This feature was
  originally written by the Lustre team, and credit goes to Artem
  Blagodarenko from Seagate for getting this feature upstream.

  The second major major feature allows ext4 to support extended
  attribute values up to 64k. This feature was also originally from
  Lustre, and has been enhanced by Tahsin Erdogan from Google with a
  deduplication feature so that if multiple files have the same xattr
  value (for example, Windows ACL's stored by Samba), only one copy will
  be stored on disk for encoding and caching efficiency.

  We also have the usual set of bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits)
  ext4: fix spelling mistake: "prellocated" -> "preallocated"
  ext4: fix __ext4_new_inode() journal credits calculation
  ext4: skip ext4_init_security() and encryption on ea_inodes
  fs: generic_block_bmap(): initialize all of the fields in the temp bh
  ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks
  ext4: require key for truncate(2) of encrypted file
  ext4: don't bother checking for encryption key in ->mmap()
  ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store
  ext4: fix off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems
  ext4: return EFSBADCRC if a bad checksum error is found in ext4_find_entry()
  ext4: return EIO on read error in ext4_find_entry
  ext4: forbid encrypting root directory
  ext4: send parallel discards on commit completions
  ext4: avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode()
  ext4: add nombcache mount option
  ext4: strong binding of xattr inode references
  ext4: eliminate xattr entry e_hash recalculation for removes
  ext4: reserve space for xattr entries/names
  quota: add get_inode_usage callback to transfer multi-inode charges
  ext4: xattr inode deduplication
  ...
2017-07-09 09:31:22 -07:00
arch pci-v4.13-changes 2017-07-08 15:51:57 -07:00
block Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-06 20:57:13 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto dmaengine updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-08 12:36:50 -07:00
Documentation pci-v4.13-changes 2017-07-08 15:51:57 -07:00
drivers pci-v4.13-changes 2017-07-08 15:51:57 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir 2017-07-09 09:31:22 -07:00
include The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir 2017-07-09 09:31:22 -07:00
init mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
ipc Writeback error handling fixes (pile #1) 2017-07-07 18:39:15 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'waitid-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-09 08:58:50 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-08 12:36:50 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-07-08 12:17:25 -07:00
net mpls: fix uninitialized in_label var warning in mpls_getroute 2017-07-08 11:26:41 +01:00
samples bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file 2017-07-05 09:05:28 +01:00
scripts Kbuild thin archives updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 15:11:12 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 16:05:24 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-06 10:56:51 -07:00
tools Kbuild updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 14:09:24 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt PPC: 2017-07-06 18:38:31 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.