that the number of hard links to a directory is not known when the link
count might exceed the maximum count limit.
.TP
+.B ea_inode
+.br
+Normally, a file's extended attributes and associated metadata must fit within
+the inode or the inode's associated extended attribute block. This feature
+allows the value of each extended attribute to be placed in the data blocks of a
+separate inode if necessary, increasing the limit on the size and number of
+extended attributes per file.
+.TP
.B encrypt
.br
This ext4 feature provides file-system level encryption of data blocks
or
.BR tune2fs(8).
.TP
+.B large_dir
+.br
+This feature increases the limit on the number of files per directory by
+raising the maximum size of directories and, for hashed b-tree directories (see
+.BR dir_index ),
+the maximum height of the hashed b-tree used to store the directory entries.
+.TP
.B large_file
.br
This feature flag is set automatically by modern kernels when a file