Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 03:19:09 +0000 (UTC) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r343010 - stable/12/share/man/man5 Message-ID: <201901140319.x0E3J9e7035639@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: pfg Date: Mon Jan 14 03:19:08 2019 New Revision: 343010 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343010 Log: MFC r342632: 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. Fix some `mandoc -Tlint` issues while here. Modified: stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile ============================================================================== --- stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile Mon Jan 14 03:13:31 2019 (r343009) +++ stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile Mon Jan 14 03:19:08 2019 (r343010) @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ 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: stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Mon Jan 14 03:13:31 2019 (r343009) +++ stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Mon Jan 14 03:19:08 2019 (r343010) @@ -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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