Re: [PATCH] ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description
From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Tue Oct 14 2025 - 22:44:48 EST
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:24:33 +0200, Zeno Endemann wrote:
> Some of the details about how directory hash trees work were confusing or
> outright wrong, this patch should fix those.
>
> A note on dx_tail's dt_reserved member, as far as I can tell the kernel
> never sets this explicitly, so its content is apparently left-overs from
> what was there before (for the dx_root I've seen remnants of a
> ext4_dir_entry_tail struct from when the dir was not yet a hash dir).
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description
commit: 4b471b736ea1ce08113a12bd7dcdaea621b0f65f
Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>