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| author | Tyson Nottingham <tgnottingham@gmail.com> | 2017-12-14 14:55:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2017-12-14 14:55:31 -0500 |
| commit | 4c11e6556e80e89393f925c6fd88058c1dceb9c2 (patch) | |
| tree | e307fdfa11acc6e9355ca47c3276e235c7e71227 | |
| parent | 3829c16c10f89204ca50546f26fc7f08165b0e11 (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-4c11e6556e80e89393f925c6fd88058c1dceb9c2.tar.gz | |
Add missing features to ext4 man page
Add descriptions for the ea_inode and large_dir features.
Signed-off-by: Tyson Nottingham <tgnottingham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/ext4.5.in | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc/ext4.5.in b/misc/ext4.5.in index 45aceb22e..a964120f9 100644 --- a/misc/ext4.5.in +++ b/misc/ext4.5.in @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ lifts this limit by causing ext4 to use a link count of 1 to indicate that the number of hard links to a directory is not known when the link count might exceed the maximum count limit. .TP +.B ea_inode +.br +Normally, a file's extended attributes and associated metadata must fit within +the inode or the inode's associated extended attribute block. This feature +allows the value of each extended attribute to be placed in the data blocks of a +separate inode if necessary, increasing the limit on the size and number of +extended attributes per file. +.TP .B encrypt .br This ext4 feature provides file-system level encryption of data blocks @@ -175,6 +183,13 @@ option to or .BR tune2fs(8). .TP +.B large_dir +.br +This feature increases the limit on the number of files per directory by +raising the maximum size of directories and, for hashed b-tree directories (see +.BR dir_index ), +the maximum height of the hashed b-tree used to store the directory entries. +.TP .B large_file .br This feature flag is set automatically by modern kernels when a file |