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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-13 22:34:47 -0700
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: - Convert content from the ext4 wiki to Documentation rst files so it is more likely to be updated as we add new features to ext4. - Add 64-bit timestamp support to ext4's superblock fields. - ... and the usual bug fixes and cleanups, including a Spectre gadget fixup and some hardening against maliciously corrupted file systems. * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (34 commits) ext4: remove unneeded variable "err" in ext4_mb_release_inode_pa() ext4: improve code readability in ext4_iget() ext4: fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() ext4: check for NUL characters in extended attribute's name ext4: use ext4_warning() for sb_getblk failure ext4: fix race when setting the bitmap corrupted flag ext4: reset error code in ext4_find_entry in fallback ext4: handle layout changes to pinned DAX mappings dax: dax_layout_busy_page() warn on !exceptional docs: fix up the obviously obsolete bits in the new ext4 documentation docs: add new ext4 superblock time extension fields docs: create filesystem internal section ext4: use swap macro in mext_page_double_lock ext4: check allocation failure when duplicating "data" in ext4_remount() ext4: fix warning message in ext4_enable_quotas() ext4: super: extend timestamps to 40 bits jbd2: replace current_kernel_time64 with ktime equivalent ext4: use timespec64 for all inode times ext4: use ktime_get_real_seconds for i_dtime ext4: use 64-bit timestamps for mmp_time ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+High Level Design
+=================
+
+An ext4 file system is split into a series of block groups. To reduce
+performance difficulties due to fragmentation, the block allocator tries
+very hard to keep each file's blocks within the same group, thereby
+reducing seek times. The size of a block group is specified in
+``sb.s_blocks_per_group`` blocks, though it can also calculated as 8 \*
+``block_size_in_bytes``. With the default block size of 4KiB, each group
+will contain 32,768 blocks, for a length of 128MiB. The number of block
+groups is the size of the device divided by the size of a block group.
+
+All fields in ext4 are written to disk in little-endian order. HOWEVER,
+all fields in jbd2 (the journal) are written to disk in big-endian
+order.
+
+.. include:: blocks.rst
+.. include:: blockgroup.rst
+.. include:: special_inodes.rst
+.. include:: allocators.rst
+.. include:: checksums.rst
+.. include:: bigalloc.rst
+.. include:: inlinedata.rst
+.. include:: eainode.rst