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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ondisk/inlinedata.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ondisk/inlinedata.rst deleted file mode 100644 index d1075178ce0b..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ondisk/inlinedata.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 - -Inline Data ------------ - -The inline data feature was designed to handle the case that a file's -data is so tiny that it readily fits inside the inode, which -(theoretically) reduces disk block consumption and reduces seeks. If the -file is smaller than 60 bytes, then the data are stored inline in -``inode.i_block``. If the rest of the file would fit inside the extended -attribute space, then it might be found as an extended attribute -“system.data” within the inode body (“ibody EA”). This of course -constrains the amount of extended attributes one can attach to an inode. -If the data size increases beyond i\_block + ibody EA, a regular block -is allocated and the contents moved to that block. - -Pending a change to compact the extended attribute key used to store -inline data, one ought to be able to store 160 bytes of data in a -256-byte inode (as of June 2015, when i\_extra\_isize is 28). Prior to -that, the limit was 156 bytes due to inefficient use of inode space. - -The inline data feature requires the presence of an extended attribute -for “system.data”, even if the attribute value is zero length. - -Inline Directories -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -The first four bytes of i\_block are the inode number of the parent -directory. Following that is a 56-byte space for an array of directory -entries; see ``struct ext4_dir_entry``. If there is a “system.data” -attribute in the inode body, the EA value is an array of -``struct ext4_dir_entry`` as well. Note that for inline directories, the -i\_block and EA space are treated as separate dirent blocks; directory -entries cannot span the two. - -Inline directory entries are not checksummed, as the inode checksum -should protect all inline data contents. |
