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directory extents The directory extent list does not have to be a continuous list of data blocks. When GRUB tries to read a non-existant member of the list, grub_xfs_read_file() will return a block of zero'ed memory. Checking for a zero'ed magic number is sufficient to skip this non-existant data block. Prior to commit 07318ee7e (fs/xfs: Fix XFS directory extent parsing) this was handled as a subtle side effect of reading the (non-existant) tail data structure. Since the block was zero'ed the computation of the number of directory entries in the block would return 0 as well.