linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description

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Message-ID: <176049624800.779602.3824744552232012410.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:44:15 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zeno Endemann <zeno.endemann@...lbox.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description


On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:24:33 +0200, Zeno Endemann wrote:
> Some of the details about how directory hash trees work were confusing or
> outright wrong, this patch should fix those.
> 
> A note on dx_tail's dt_reserved member, as far as I can tell the kernel
> never sets this explicitly, so its content is apparently left-overs from
> what was there before (for the dx_root I've seen remnants of a
> ext4_dir_entry_tail struct from when the dir was not yet a hash dir).
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description
      commit: 4b471b736ea1ce08113a12bd7dcdaea621b0f65f

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>