linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Ext4 documentation fixes.

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Message-Id: <1FBF4302-FA3E-49BE-B9AA-F380518AB263@dilger.ca>
Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:09:27 -0600
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     Ayush Ranjan <ayushr2@...inois.edu>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4 documentation fixes.

On Aug 14, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Ayush Ranjan <ayushr2@...inois.edu> wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst
> index 6bd35e506..c468a3171 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst
> @@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ inode, which allows struct ext4\_inode to grow for a new kernel without
>  having to upgrade all of the on-disk inodes. Access to fields beyond
>  EXT2\_GOOD\_OLD\_INODE\_SIZE should be verified to be within
>  ``i_extra_isize``. By default, ext4 inode records are 256 bytes, and (as
> -of October 2013) the inode structure is 156 bytes
> -(``i_extra_isize = 28``). The extra space between the end of the inode
> +of October 2013) the inode structure is 160 bytes

This should be changed to "as of August 2019", or possibly the date on
which the last field (i_projid) was added, namely "October, 2015".

Cheers, Andreas






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