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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst index a65baffb4ebf..6c5ce666e63f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/inodes.rst @@ -498,11 +498,11 @@ structure -- inode change time (ctime), access time (atime), data modification time (mtime), and deletion time (dtime). The four fields are 32-bit signed integers that represent seconds since the Unix epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT), which means that the fields will overflow in -January 2038. For inodes that are not linked from any directory but are -still open (orphan inodes), the dtime field is overloaded for use with -the orphan list. The superblock field ``s_last_orphan`` points to the -first inode in the orphan list; dtime is then the number of the next -orphaned inode, or zero if there are no more orphans. +January 2038. If the filesystem does not have orphan_file feature, inodes +that are not linked from any directory but are still open (orphan inodes) have +the dtime field overloaded for use with the orphan list. The superblock field +``s_last_orphan`` points to the first inode in the orphan list; dtime is then +the number of the next orphaned inode, or zero if there are no more orphans. If the inode structure size ``sb->s_inode_size`` is larger than 128 bytes and the ``i_inode_extra`` field is large enough to encompass the |