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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:15:33 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        koobs@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r341505 - head/share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <f32eb17b-7ec0-1700-90a3-298562a5f314@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <44199325-5b07-5195-1157-63c197eb5f07@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201812042251.wB4MpE2m018782@repo.freebsd.org> <343a2f70-fb4c-bc5c-d32c-789e7797a628@FreeBSD.org> <44199325-5b07-5195-1157-63c197eb5f07@FreeBSD.org>

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On 12/5/18 10:24 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>
> On 12/5/18 12:06 AM, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
>> On 5/12/2018 9:51 am, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>>> Starting with FreeBSD 12 we fully support writing ext4 filesystems
>> ...
>
>> Seems minor but I think worth it for discovery/pola/obviousness, and 
>> a good time (early in the 13.0 cycle).
>>
>> We get a lot of user questions about ext*fs support on FreeBSD and 
>> pointing to an ext2fs man page also feels a bit weird.
>>
> This has to be "fixed" through documentation. I will admit that I 
> haven't been working properly on the documentation, other than trying 
> to remember some details in the Wiki page.
>
>
>> Happy to get/organise a !committer contributor to take care of this 
>> if no-one wants to pick it up.
>>
>
> I will be glad to review/commit manpage changes that make things 
> clearer. We should probably even try to document the format, as I 
> recall we do for FAT somewhere(?).
>
I had a first try at making the manpage more precise here:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18445

I realize other places like the handbook still needs more love but we 
have to start somewhere.

Pedro.



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