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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst index 9061aabba827..fc0636901fa0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/special_inodes.rst @@ -34,5 +34,22 @@ ext4 reserves some inode for special features, as follows: * - 10 - Replica inode, used for some non-upstream feature? * - 11 - - Traditional first non-reserved inode. Usually this is the lost+found directory. See s\_first\_ino in the superblock. + - Traditional first non-reserved inode. Usually this is the lost+found directory. See s_first_ino in the superblock. +Note that there are also some inodes allocated from non-reserved inode numbers +for other filesystem features which are not referenced from standard directory +hierarchy. These are generally reference from the superblock. They are: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 20 50 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Superblock field + - Description + + * - s_lpf_ino + - Inode number of lost+found directory. + * - s_prj_quota_inum + - Inode number of quota file tracking project quotas + * - s_orphan_file_inum + - Inode number of file tracking orphan inodes. |