Author: pfg
Date: Mon Jan 14 03:19:08 2019
New Revision: 343010
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343010
Log:
MFC r342632:
ext2fs.5: Update the manpage.
General update of the driver description and mention some important credits.
Add a symlink for ext4fs as it is of special interest nowadays.
Fix some `mandoc -Tlint` issues while here.
Modified:
stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile
stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5
Directory Properties:
stable/12/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile Mon Jan 14 03:13:31 2019
(r343009)
+++ stable/12/share/man/man5/Makefile Mon Jan 14 03:19:08 2019
(r343010)
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ MAN= acct.5 \
tmpfs.5
MLINKS= dir.5 dirent.5
+MLINKS+=ext2fs.5 ext4fs.5
MLINKS+=fs.5 inode.5
MLINKS+=hosts.equiv.5 rhosts.5
MLINKS+=msdosfs.5 msdos.5
Modified: stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Mon Jan 14 03:13:31 2019
(r343009)
+++ stable/12/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5 Mon Jan 14 03:19:08 2019
(r343010)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 4, 2018
+.Dd December 30, 2018
.Dt EXT2FS 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -47,13 +47,15 @@ The
driver will permit the
.Fx
kernel to access
-.Tn ext2 ,
-.Tn ext3 ,
+ext2
+file systems and its derivatives.
+It currently implements most of the features required by
+.Em ext3
and
-.Tn ext4
+.Em ext4
file systems.
Support for Extended Attributes in
-.Tn ext4
+.Em ext4
is experimental.
Journalling and encryption are currently not supported.
.Sh EXAMPLES
@@ -77,14 +79,28 @@ driver first appeared in
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
-kernel implementation was written by
+kernel implementation is derived from code written,
+or modified,
+by
.An Godmar Back
-or modified by him using the CSRG sources.
+using the UFS CSRG sources for CMU Mach.
.Pp
.An John Dyson
-and others in the
+did the initial port to
+.Fx .
+.An Aditya Sarawgi
+merged important parts of the allocation code from a clean-room
+.Nx
+implementation.
+.An Zheng Liu
+and
+.An Fedor Upurov
+implemented the read and write support respectively for
+.Em ext4
+filesystems.
+The
.Fx
-Project made modifications.
+community has contributed a huge amount of modifications.
.Pp
-This manual page was written by
+The initial version of this manual page was written by
.An Craig Rodrigues Aq Mt rodr...@freebsd.org .
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