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6 ext4 supports fs-verity, which is a filesystem feature that provides
7 Merkle tree based hashing for individual readonly files. Most of
8 fs-verity is common to all filesystems that support it; see
9 :ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst <fsverity>` for the
10 fs-verity documentation. However, the on-disk layout of the verity
11 metadata is filesystem-specific. On ext4, the verity metadata is
12 stored after the end of the file data itself, in the following format:
14 - Zero-padding to the next 65536-byte boundary. This padding need not
15 actually be allocated on-disk, i.e. it may be a hole.
17 - The Merkle tree, as documented in
18 :ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst
19 <fsverity_merkle_tree>`, with the tree levels stored in order from
20 root to leaf, and the tree blocks within each level stored in their
23 - Zero-padding to the next filesystem block boundary.
25 - The verity descriptor, as documented in
26 :ref:`Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst <fsverity_descriptor>`,
27 with optionally appended signature blob.
29 - Zero-padding to the next offset that is 4 bytes before a filesystem
32 - The size of the verity descriptor in bytes, as a 4-byte little
35 Verity inodes have EXT4_VERITY_FL set, and they must use extents, i.e.
36 EXT4_EXTENTS_FL must be set and EXT4_INLINE_DATA_FL must be clear.
37 They can have EXT4_ENCRYPT_FL set, in which case the verity metadata
38 is encrypted as well as the data itself.
40 Verity files cannot have blocks allocated past the end of the verity