On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it to make sure that the block of data starts aligned to 4-bytes? Hello, Ok, I just checked here experimentally and it is indeed padding to 4-bytes... Does the same padding exist if the attribute is in a block as opposed to being in the space after the inode? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html