filesystems.5 man page

filesystems.5 man page

[Ivana Hutarova Varekova]

filesystems.5 man page does not mention ext4 filesystem, so I'm sending 
a patch which adds it.
Ivana

diff -up ./filesystems.5.pom ./filesystems.5
--- ./filesystems.5.pom    2010-02-26 05:46:53.000000000 +0100
+++ ./filesystems.5    2010-06-23 09:16:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ is a journaling version of the ext2 file
  It is easy to
  switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3.
  .TP
+.B ext4
+is the next generation of the ext filesystem series.  In addition to
+journaling, ext4 supports larger files and filesystems than ext3, and 
provides
+other modern features such as preallocation and an extent-based allocator.
+.TP
  .B Reiserfs
  is a journaling file system, designed by Hans Reiser,
  that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.1.

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Re: filesystems.5 man page

[Michael Kerrisk]

Hello Ivana,

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Ivana Hutarova Varekova
<varekova-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> filesystems.5 man page does not mention ext4 filesystem, so I'm sending a
> patch which adds it.
> Ivana

Thanks. This was independently reported, and I already applied another
patch for 2.25.

Thanks,

Michael


> diff -up ./filesystems.5.pom ./filesystems.5
> --- ./filesystems.5.pom    2010-02-26 05:46:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ ./filesystems.5    2010-06-23 09:16:42.000000000 +0200
> @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ is a journaling version of the ext2 file
>  It is easy to
>  switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3.
>  .TP
> +.B ext4
> +is the next generation of the ext filesystem series.  In addition to
> +journaling, ext4 supports larger files and filesystems than ext3, and
> provides
> +other modern features such as preallocation and an extent-based allocator.
> +.TP
>  .B Reiserfs
>  is a journaling file system, designed by Hans Reiser,
>  that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.1.
>
>



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