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@@ -494,6 +494,17 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>
session_write_kbytes This file is read-only and shows the number of
kilobytes of data that have been written to this
filesystem since it was mounted.
+
+ reserved_clusters This is RW file and contains number of reserved
+ clusters in the file system which will be used
+ in the specific situations to avoid costly
+ zeroout, unexpected ENOSPC, or possible data
+ loss. The default is 2% or 4096 clusters,
+ whichever is smaller and this can be changed
+ however it can never exceed number of clusters
+ in the file system. If there is not enough space
+ for the reserved space when mounting the file
+ mount will _not_ fail.
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