Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "The first major feature for ext4 this merge window is the largedir feature, which allows ext4 directories to support over 2 billion directory entries (assuming ~64 byte file names; in practice, users will run into practical performance limits first.) This feature was originally written by the Lustre team, and credit goes to Artem Blagodarenko from Seagate for getting this feature upstream. The second major major feature allows ext4 to support extended attribute values up to 64k. This feature was also originally from Lustre, and has been enhanced by Tahsin Erdogan from Google with a deduplication feature so that if multiple files have the same xattr value (for example, Windows ACL's stored by Samba), only one copy will be stored on disk for encoding and caching efficiency. We also have the usual set of bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations" * tag 'ext4_for_li...
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