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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 - Superblock struct was outdated, added the new fields which were part of s_reserved earlier.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>
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@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ if the flex\_bg size is 4, then group 0 will contain (in order) the
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superblock, group descriptors, data block bitmaps for groups 0-3, inode
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bitmaps for groups 0-3, inode tables for groups 0-3, and the remaining
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space in group 0 is for file data. The effect of this is to group the
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block metadata close together for faster loading, and to enable large
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files to be continuous on disk. Backup copies of the superblock and
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group descriptors are always at the beginning of block groups, even if
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flex\_bg is enabled. The number of block groups that make up a flex\_bg
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is given by 2 ^ ``sb.s_log_groups_per_flex``.
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block group metadata close together for faster loading, and to enable
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large files to be continuous on disk. Backup copies of the superblock
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and group descriptors are always at the beginning of block groups, even
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if flex\_bg is enabled. The number of block groups that make up a
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flex\_bg is given by 2 ^ ``sb.s_log_groups_per_flex``.
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Meta Block Groups
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-----------------
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@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ block groups. Block size is specified at mkfs time and typically is
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4KiB. You may experience mounting problems if block size is greater than
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page size (i.e. 64KiB blocks on a i386 which only has 4KiB memory
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pages). By default a filesystem can contain 2^32 blocks; if the '64bit'
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feature is enabled, then a filesystem can have 2^64 blocks.
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feature is enabled, then a filesystem can have 2^64 blocks. The location
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of structures is stored in terms of the block number the structure lives
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in and not the absolute offset on disk.
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For 32-bit filesystems, limits are as follows:
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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ is at most 263 bytes long, though on disk you'll need to reference
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- File name.
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Since file names cannot be longer than 255 bytes, the new directory
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entry format shortens the rec\_len field and uses the space for a file
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entry format shortens the name\_len field and uses the space for a file
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type flag, probably to avoid having to load every inode during directory
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tree traversal. This format is ``ext4_dir_entry_2``, which is at most
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263 bytes long, though on disk you'll need to reference
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@ -99,9 +99,12 @@ The block group descriptor is laid out in ``struct ext4_group_desc``.
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* - 0x1E
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- \_\_le16
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- bg\_checksum
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- Group descriptor checksum; crc16(sb\_uuid+group+desc) if the
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RO\_COMPAT\_GDT\_CSUM feature is set, or crc32c(sb\_uuid+group\_desc) &
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0xFFFF if the RO\_COMPAT\_METADATA\_CSUM feature is set.
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- Group descriptor checksum; crc16(sb\_uuid+group\_num+bg\_desc) if the
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RO\_COMPAT\_GDT\_CSUM feature is set, or
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crc32c(sb\_uuid+group\_num+bg\_desc) & 0xFFFF if the
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RO\_COMPAT\_METADATA\_CSUM feature is set. The bg\_checksum
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field in bg\_desc is skipped when calculating crc16 checksum,
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and set to zero if crc32c checksum is used.
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* -
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-
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-
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@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ inode, which allows struct ext4\_inode to grow for a new kernel without
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having to upgrade all of the on-disk inodes. Access to fields beyond
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EXT2\_GOOD\_OLD\_INODE\_SIZE should be verified to be within
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``i_extra_isize``. By default, ext4 inode records are 256 bytes, and (as
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of October 2013) the inode structure is 156 bytes
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(``i_extra_isize = 28``). The extra space between the end of the inode
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of August 2019) the inode structure is 160 bytes
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(``i_extra_isize = 32``). The extra space between the end of the inode
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structure and the end of the inode record can be used to store extended
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attributes. Each inode record can be as large as the filesystem block
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size, though this is not terribly efficient.
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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The ext4 superblock is laid out as follows in
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* - 0x1C
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- \_\_le32
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- s\_log\_cluster\_size
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- Cluster size is (2 ^ s\_log\_cluster\_size) blocks if bigalloc is
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- Cluster size is 2 ^ (10 + s\_log\_cluster\_size) blocks if bigalloc is
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enabled. Otherwise s\_log\_cluster\_size must equal s\_log\_block\_size.
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* - 0x20
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- \_\_le32
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@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ The ext4 superblock is laid out as follows in
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- Upper 8 bits of the s_wtime field.
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* - 0x275
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- \_\_u8
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- s\_wtime_hi
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- s\_mtime_hi
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- Upper 8 bits of the s_mtime field.
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* - 0x276
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- \_\_u8
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@ -466,12 +466,20 @@ The ext4 superblock is laid out as follows in
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- s\_last_error_time_hi
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- Upper 8 bits of the s_last_error_time_hi field.
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* - 0x27A
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- \_\_u8[2]
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- s\_pad
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- \_\_u8
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- s\_pad[2]
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- Zero padding.
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* - 0x27C
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- \_\_le16
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- s\_encoding
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- Filename charset encoding.
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* - 0x27E
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- \_\_le16
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- s\_encoding_flags
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- Filename charset encoding flags.
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* - 0x280
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- \_\_le32
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- s\_reserved[96]
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- s\_reserved[95]
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- Padding to the end of the block.
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* - 0x3FC
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- \_\_le32
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@ -617,7 +625,7 @@ following:
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* - 0x80
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- Enable a filesystem size of 2^64 blocks (INCOMPAT\_64BIT).
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* - 0x100
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- Multiple mount protection. Not implemented (INCOMPAT\_MMP).
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- Multiple mount protection (INCOMPAT\_MMP).
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* - 0x200
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- Flexible block groups. See the earlier discussion of this feature
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(INCOMPAT\_FLEX\_BG).
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