From: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, corbet@lwn.net,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:46:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250819124604.8995-1-mallikarjunst09@gmail.com> (raw)
Fix minor spelling and grammatical issues in the ext4 atomic_writes
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
index f65767df3620..b614b5ffe76b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ I/O) on regular files with extents, provided the underlying storage device
supports hardware atomic writes. This is supported in the following two ways:
1. **Single-fsblock Atomic Writes**:
- EXT4's supports atomic write operations with a single filesystem block since
+ EXT4 supports atomic write operations with a single filesystem block since
v6.13. In this the atomic write unit minimum and maximum sizes are both set
to filesystem blocksize.
e.g. doing atomic write of 16KB with 16KB filesystem blocksize on 64KB
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Multi-fsblock Implementation Details
The bigalloc feature changes ext4 to allocate in units of multiple filesystem
blocks, also known as clusters. With bigalloc each bit within block bitmap
-represents cluster (power of 2 number of blocks) rather than individual
+represents a cluster (power of 2 number of blocks) rather than individual
filesystem blocks.
EXT4 supports multi-fsblock atomic writes with bigalloc, subject to the
following constraints. The minimum atomic write size is the larger of the fs
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ The write must be aligned to the filesystem's block size and not exceed the
filesystem's maximum atomic write unit size.
See ``generic_atomic_write_valid()`` for more details.
-``statx()`` system call with ``STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC`` flag can provides following
+``statx()`` system call with ``STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC`` flag can provide following
details:
* ``stx_atomic_write_unit_min``: Minimum size of an atomic write request.
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-08-19 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-19 12:46 Mallikarjun Thammanavar [this message]
2025-08-19 14:48 ` [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes Darrick J. Wong
2025-08-19 17:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-08-29 22:32 ` Jonathan Corbet
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