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PATCH Ivana Hutarova Varekova 2 participants 2 messages Jun 23, 2010 – Jun 25, 2010 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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

filesystems.5 2010-06-23 09:16:42.000000000 +0200 renamed from filesystems.5.pom 2010-02-26 05:46:53.000000000 +0100 +5 -0
diff -up ./filesystems.5.pom ./filesystems.5
@@ -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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Hello Ivana,

Quoted 3 lines · Ivana Hutarova Varekova

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

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diff -up ./filesystems.5.pom ./filesystems.5

filesystems.5    2010-06-23 09:16:42.000000000 +0200 renamed from filesystems.5.pom    2010-02-26 05:46:53.000000000 +0100 +0 -0
@@ -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

filesystems.5    2010-06-23 09:16:42.000000000 +0200 renamed from filesystems.5.pom    2010-02-26 05:46:53.000000000 +0100 +2 -0
+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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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
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