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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst index ecc0d01a0a72..7a2ef26b064a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ Large Extended Attribute Values To enable ext4 to store extended attribute values that do not fit in the inode or in the single extended attribute block attached to an inode, -the EA\_INODE feature allows us to store the value in the data blocks of +the EA_INODE feature allows us to store the value in the data blocks of a regular file inode. This “EA inode” is linked only from the extended attribute name index and must not appear in a directory entry. The -inode's i\_atime field is used to store a checksum of the xattr value; -and i\_ctime/i\_version store a 64-bit reference count, which enables +inode's i_atime field is used to store a checksum of the xattr value; +and i_ctime/i_version store a 64-bit reference count, which enables sharing of large xattr values between multiple owning inodes. For backward compatibility with older versions of this feature, the -i\_mtime/i\_generation *may* store a back-reference to the inode number -and i\_generation of the **one** owning inode (in cases where the EA +i_mtime/i_generation *may* store a back-reference to the inode number +and i_generation of the **one** owning inode (in cases where the EA inode is not referenced by multiple inodes) to verify that the EA inode is the correct one being accessed. |