Re: [PATCH v2] Ext4 documentation fixes.

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:16:23 -0700
Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Aug 15, 2019, at 09:11, Ayush Ranjan <ayushr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > This commit aims to fix the following issues in ext4 documentation:
> > - Flexible block group docs said that the aim was to group block
> >   metadata together instead of block group metadata.
> > - The documentation consistly uses "location" instead of "block number".
> >   It is easy to confuse location to be an absolute offset on disk. Added
> >   a line to clarify all location values are in terms of block numbers.
> > - Dirent2 docs said that the rec_len field is shortened instead of the
> >   name_len field.
> > - Typo in bg_checksum description.
> > - Inode size is 160 bytes now, and hence i_extra_isize is now 32.
> > - Cluster size formula was incorrect, it did not include the +10 to
> >   s_log_cluster_size value.
> > - Typo: there were two s_wtime_hi in the superblock struct.
> > - Superblock struct was outdated, added the new fields which were part
> >   of s_reserved earlier.
> > - Multiple mount protection seems to be implemented in fs/ext4/mmp.c.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ayush Ranjan <ayushr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx>

I've applied this to the docs tree.

However, Ayush: the patch was rather badly corrupted by your mail client.
I managed to fix it up, but please in the future verify that you can email
a patch to yourself and apply it before submitting it.  There may be some
useful hints in Documentation/process/email-clients.rst .

Thanks,

jon