On 10/28/19 8:43 AM, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
The third field of inode-state is dummy (== 0).
Update the description about the actual fields and
dummies.
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Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 2a45119e3331..596f84a1748d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -151,18 +151,15 @@ out of inodes, you need to increase this value.
The file inode-nr contains the first two items from
inode-state, so we'll skip to that file...
-Inode-state contains three actual numbers and four dummies.
-The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes,
-nr_free_inodes and preshrink.
+Inode-state contains two actual numbers and five dummies.
+The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes
+and nr_free_inodes.
Nr_inodes stands for the number of inodes the system has
allocated, this can be slightly more than inode-max because
Linux allocates them one pageful at a time.
-Nr_free_inodes represents the number of free inodes (?) and
-preshrink is nonzero when the nr_inodes > inode-max and the
-system needs to prune the inode list instead of allocating
-more.
+Nr_free_inodes represents the number of free inodes.
overflowgid & overflowuid
