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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0fad6eda6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +High Level Design +================= + +An ext4 file system is split into a series of block groups. To reduce +performance difficulties due to fragmentation, the block allocator tries +very hard to keep each file's blocks within the same group, thereby +reducing seek times. The size of a block group is specified in +``sb.s_blocks_per_group`` blocks, though it can also calculated as 8 * +``block_size_in_bytes``. With the default block size of 4KiB, each group +will contain 32,768 blocks, for a length of 128MiB. The number of block +groups is the size of the device divided by the size of a block group. + +All fields in ext4 are written to disk in little-endian order. HOWEVER, +all fields in jbd2 (the journal) are written to disk in big-endian +order. + +.. include:: blocks.rst +.. include:: blockgroup.rst +.. include:: special_inodes.rst +.. include:: allocators.rst +.. include:: checksums.rst +.. include:: bigalloc.rst +.. include:: inlinedata.rst +.. include:: eainode.rst +.. include:: verity.rst |