Re: [PATCH] Ext4 documentation fixes.

From: Andreas Dilger
Date: Thu Aug 15 2019 - 02:04:48 EST


On Aug 14, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Ayush Ranjan <ayushr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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