Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:45:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53138 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems Message-ID: <201906111845.x5BIjOew053643@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bcr Date: Tue Jun 11 18:45:23 2019 New Revision: 53138 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53138 Log: Extend the ext4 filesystem description a bit by mentioning the supported and unsupported features more clearly. PR: 234979 Submitted by: nikolaibitinit@gmail.com Reviewed by: pfg, fsu Approved by: fsu Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20571 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems/chapter.xml Tue Jun 11 14:52:28 2019 (r53137) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems/chapter.xml Tue Jun 11 18:45:23 2019 (r53138) @@ -113,10 +113,15 @@ read and write to ext2 file systems.</para> <note> - <para> - This driver can also be used to access ext3 and ext4 file - systems. However, ext3 journaling and extended attributes - are not supported. Support for ext4 is read-only.</para> + <para>This driver can also be used to access ext3 and ext4 + file systems. The &man.ext2fs.5; filesystem has full read + and write support for ext4 as of &os; 12.0-RELEASE. + Additionally, extended attributes and ACLs are also + supported, while journalling and encryption are not. + Starting with &os; 12.1-RELEASE, a DTrace provider will + be available as well. Prior versions of &os; can access + ext4 in read and write mode using + <package>sysutils/fusefs-ext2</package>.</para> </note> <para>To access an ext file system, first
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