Commit b7eef407 authored by Wu Bo's avatar Wu Bo Committed by Theodore Ts'o

docs: ext4: modify the group desc size to 64

Since the default ext4 group desc size is 64 now (assuming that the
64-bit feature is enbled). And the size mentioned in this doc is 64 too.
Change it to 64.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Bo <bo.wu@vivo.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222013525.14748-1-bo.wu@vivo.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent c993799b
...@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ descriptors. Instead, the superblock and a single block group descriptor ...@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ descriptors. Instead, the superblock and a single block group descriptor
block is placed at the beginning of the first, second, and last block block is placed at the beginning of the first, second, and last block
groups in a meta-block group. A meta-block group is a collection of groups in a meta-block group. A meta-block group is a collection of
block groups which can be described by a single block group descriptor block groups which can be described by a single block group descriptor
block. Since the size of the block group descriptor structure is 32 block. Since the size of the block group descriptor structure is 64
bytes, a meta-block group contains 32 block groups for filesystems with bytes, a meta-block group contains 16 block groups for filesystems with
a 1KB block size, and 128 block groups for filesystems with a 4KB a 1KB block size, and 64 block groups for filesystems with a 4KB
blocksize. Filesystems can either be created using this new block group blocksize. Filesystems can either be created using this new block group
descriptor layout, or existing filesystems can be resized on-line, and descriptor layout, or existing filesystems can be resized on-line, and
the field s_first_meta_bg in the superblock will indicate the first the field s_first_meta_bg in the superblock will indicate the first
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