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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:21:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fb70bd5-76a6-4099-90d4-2cbee7f47475@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250819124604.8995-1-mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>



On 8/19/25 5:46 AM, Mallikarjun Thammanavar wrote:
> Fix minor spelling and grammatical issues in the ext4 atomic_writes
> documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  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.

-- 
~Randy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-19 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-19 12:46 [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes Mallikarjun Thammanavar
2025-08-19 14:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-08-19 17:21 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2025-08-29 22:32 ` Jonathan Corbet

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