From: Tyson Nottingham Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:55:31 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Add missing features to ext4 man page X-Git-Tag: v1.44.0-rc1~35 X-Git-Url: https://git.whamcloud.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c11e6556e80e89393f925c6fd88058c1dceb9c2;p=tools%2Fe2fsprogs.git Add missing features to ext4 man page Add descriptions for the ea_inode and large_dir features. Signed-off-by: Tyson Nottingham Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- diff --git a/misc/ext4.5.in b/misc/ext4.5.in index 45aceb2..a964120 100644 --- a/misc/ext4.5.in +++ b/misc/ext4.5.in @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ lifts this limit by causing ext4 to use a link count of 1 to indicate 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 @@ -175,6 +183,13 @@ option to 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