Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 03:21:57 +0100 (CET) From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/88512: mount_ext2fs man page has no details on large file and journaling support Message-ID: <200511050221.jA52LvgN079855@agricola.home.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200511050230.jA52UGTp062804@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 88512 >Category: docs >Synopsis: mount_ext2fs man page has no details on large file and journaling support >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Nov 05 02:30:16 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ivan Voras >Release: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD agricola 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #9: Wed Oct 12 23:21:24 CEST 2005 ivoras@agricola:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AGRICOLA i386 >Description: mount_ext2fs(8) is not informative and doesn't mention issues with large file and journaling support. >How-To-Repeat: man mount_ext2fs >Fix: --- mount_ext2fs.8_old Mon Oct 31 20:43:17 2005 +++ mount_ext2fs.8 Mon Oct 31 20:56:45 2005 @@ -60,6 +60,21 @@ .Xr mount 8 man page for possible options and their meanings. .El +.Sh BUGS +Unlike the original Linux implementation, the "large_file" +flag is not set automatically when first file larger than +2GB is created. Instead, +.Xr debugfs 8 +utility from the e2fsprogs port must be used to manually +set the flag with `feature large_file` command. Other than +this, large files are fully supported. + +Support for journaling (ext3) is missing, and filesystems that +have it enabled are treated as plain ext2 filesystems. +This means that +.Xr e2fsck 8 +will have to be used to repair the journal when the filesystem +is to be used in Linux. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mount 2 , .Xr unmount 2 , >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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