Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:44:50 +0000 (UTC) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r342632 - head/share/man/man5 Message-ID: <201812301944.wBUJioTd077028@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: pfg Date: Sun Dec 30 19:44:50 2018 New Revision: 342632 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342632 Log: ext2fs.5: Update the manpage. General update of the driver description and mention some important credits. Add a symlink for ext4fs as it is of special interest nowadays. Fic some `mandoc -Tlint` issues while here. MFC after: 15 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18445 Modified: head/share/man/man5/Makefile head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Modified: head/share/man/man5/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man5/Makefile Sun Dec 30 16:39:26 2018 (r342631) +++ head/share/man/man5/Makefile Sun Dec 30 19:44:50 2018 (r342632) @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ MAN= acct.5 \ tmpfs.5 MLINKS= dir.5 dirent.5 +MLINKS+=ext2fs.5 ext4fs.5 MLINKS+=fs.5 inode.5 MLINKS+=hosts.equiv.5 rhosts.5 MLINKS+=msdosfs.5 msdos.5 Modified: head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Sun Dec 30 16:39:26 2018 (r342631) +++ head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Sun Dec 30 19:44:50 2018 (r342632) @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 4, 2018 +.Dd December 30, 2018 .Dt EXT2FS 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -47,13 +47,15 @@ The driver will permit the .Fx kernel to access -.Tn ext2 , -.Tn ext3 , +ext2 +file systems and its derivatives. +It currently implements most of the features required by +.Em ext3 and -.Tn ext4 +.Em ext4 file systems. Support for Extended Attributes in -.Tn ext4 +.Em ext4 is experimental. Journalling and encryption are currently not supported. .Sh EXAMPLES @@ -77,14 +79,28 @@ driver first appeared in .An -nosplit The .Nm -kernel implementation was written by +kernel implementation is derived from code written, +or modified, +by .An Godmar Back -or modified by him using the CSRG sources. +using the UFS CSRG sources for CMU Mach. .Pp .An John Dyson -and others in the +did the initial port to +.Fx . +.An Aditya Sarawgi +merged important parts of the allocation code from a clean-room +.Nx +implementation. +.An Zheng Liu +and +.An Fedor Upurov +implemented the read and write support respectively for +.Em ext4 +filesystems. +The .Fx -Project made modifications. +community has contributed a huge amount of modifications. .Pp -This manual page was written by +The initial version of this manual page was written by .An Craig Rodrigues Aq Mt rodrigc@FreeBSD.org .
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