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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-24 18:42:24 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-24 18:42:24 +0200 |
commit | 5993692f09582accb4cb7af11d344598af43c3b8 (patch) | |
tree | 062447eb44769d6da6e50302853eac1bb1d6e5d3 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst | |
parent | Merge tag 'f2fs-for-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gi... (diff) | |
parent | ext4: fix use-after-free race in ext4_remount()'s error path (diff) | |
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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:
- further restructure ext4 documentation
- fix up ext4's delayed allocation for bigalloc file systems
- fix up some syzbot-detected races in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT,
EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT, and ext4_remount
- ... and a few other miscellaneous bugs and optimizations.
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
ext4: fix use-after-free race in ext4_remount()'s error path
ext4: cache NULL when both default_acl and acl are NULL
docs: promote the ext4 data structures book to top level
docs: move ext4 administrative docs to admin-guide/
jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
ext4: propagate error from dquot_initialize() in EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR
ext4: fix setattr project check in fssetxattr ioctl
docs: make ext4 readme tables readable
docs: fix ext4 documentation table formatting problems
docs: generate a separate ext4 pdf file from the documentation
ext4: convert fault handler to use vm_fault_t type
ext4: initialize retries variable in ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin()
ext4: fix EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
ext4: fix build error when DX_DEBUG is defined
ext4: fix argument checking in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting at page invalidation time
ext4: adjust reserved cluster count when removing extents
ext4: reduce reserved cluster count by number of allocated clusters
ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting at delayed write time
ext4: add new pending reservation mechanism
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9061aabba827 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Special inodes +-------------- + +ext4 reserves some inode for special features, as follows: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 6 70 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - inode Number + - Purpose + * - 0 + - Doesn't exist; there is no inode 0. + * - 1 + - List of defective blocks. + * - 2 + - Root directory. + * - 3 + - User quota. + * - 4 + - Group quota. + * - 5 + - Boot loader. + * - 6 + - Undelete directory. + * - 7 + - Reserved group descriptors inode. (“resize inode”) + * - 8 + - Journal inode. + * - 9 + - The “exclude” inode, for snapshots(?) + * - 10 + - Replica inode, used for some non-upstream feature? + * - 11 + - Traditional first non-reserved inode. Usually this is the lost+found directory. See s\_first\_ino in the superblock. + |