> I will be glad to review/commit manpage changes that make things > clearer. We should probably even try to document the format, as I recall > we do for FAT somewhere(?).
In addition to updating the manpage, perhaps also create links to it as ext3fs.5 and ext4fs.5? -Ravi (rpokala@) -----Original Message----- From: <owner-src-committ...@freebsd.org> on behalf of Pedro Giffuni <p...@freebsd.org> Date: 2018-12-05, Wednesday at 07:24 To: <ko...@freebsd.org>, <src-committ...@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-...@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r341505 - head/share/man/man5 On 12/5/18 12:06 AM, Kubilay Kocak wrote: >> On 5/12/2018 9:51 am, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >>> Starting with FreeBSD 12 we fully support writing ext4 filesystems >> >> Can we remove '2' from the module/man/etc name if (since) it supports >> multiple extXfs versions? Is there anything serious preventing it? >> > Bad idea: neither us or linux support the old extfs format. It is a > common misconception that ext3 or ext4 are different filesystems: they > are both extensions over the ext2 format and they were always intended > to work like that. > > You can currently create plain ext2 filesystems on FreeBSD and add > ext3/4 features on top and it will work just fine. The distinction on > linux about ext2/3/4 is rather accidental: they didn't master Version > Control in time to branch instead of forking the implementation a couple > of times. It also seems like ext3 disappeared. > >> Seems minor but I think worth it for discovery/pola/obviousness, and a >> good time (early in the 13.0 cycle). >> >> We get a lot of user questions about ext*fs support on FreeBSD and >> pointing to an ext2fs man page also feels a bit weird. > > This has to be "fixed" through documentation. I will admit that I > haven't been working properly on the documentation, other than trying to > remember some details in the Wiki page. > >> Happy to get/organise a !committer contributor to take care of this if >> no-one wants to pick it up. > > I will be glad to review/commit manpage changes that make things > clearer. We should probably even try to document the format, as I recall > we do for FAT somewhere(?). > > Pedro. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
