On 05/18/2010 02:56 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
Hi!
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:05:36PM -0400, Jeff B wrote:
Just FYI the fs(5) man page is woefully out of date. The version on your
website at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man5/fs.5.html,
dated 2007-12-14, does not mention EXT4 and NTFS, among other things.
Patches are welcome.
Kind regards,
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
OK, you want a patch, you get a patch. This is against the latest
version, man-pages-3.24, of the filesystems.5 man page. I added
references to ext4 and ntfs by condensing information I took from
the Wikipedia pages for those file systems.
I hope it is acceptable that I attached the patch in diff -u format;
pasting it into this eMail was converting tabs into spaces.
cksum filesystems.5.2010-05-19.new.patch.u
55916840 1656 filesystems.5.2010-05-19.new.patch.u
Jeff Barry
--- filesystems.5.man-pages-3.24.ori 2010-02-25 23:46:53.000000000 -0500
+++ filesystems.5.2010-05-19.new 2010-05-19 15:08:55.653199451 -0400
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
.\"
.\" 2007-12-14 mtk Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS.
.\"
-.TH FILESYSTEMS 5 2007-12-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\" 2010-05-19 Jeff Barry, Added ext4 and ntfs.
+.\"
+.TH FILESYSTEMS 5 2010-05-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.nh
.SH NAME
-filesystems \- Linux file-system types: minix, ext, ext2, ext3, Reiserfs,
+filesystems \- Linux file-system types: minix, ext, ext2, ext3, ext4, Reiserfs,
XFS, JFS, xia, msdos,
-umsdos, vfat, proc, nfs, iso9660, hpfs, sysv, smb, ncpfs
+umsdos, vfat, ntfs, proc, nfs, iso9660, hpfs, sysv, smb, ncpfs
.SH DESCRIPTION
When, as is customary, the
.B proc
@@ -77,6 +79,9 @@
It is easy to
switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3.
.TP
+.B ext4
+is a set of upgrades to ext3 including substantial performance and reliability enhancements, plus huge increases in volume, file, and directory size limits.
+.TP
.B Reiserfs
is a journaling file system, designed by Hans Reiser,
that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.1.
@@ -116,6 +121,9 @@
is an extended DOS file system used by Microsoft Windows95 and Windows NT.
VFAT adds the capability to use long filenames under the MSDOS file system.
.TP
+.B ntfs
+replaces Microsoft Window's *FAT* file systems (eg VFAT, FAT32). It has reliability, performance, and space utilization enhancements plus features like ACLs, journaling, encryption, etc.
+.TP
.B proc
is a pseudo file system which is used as an interface to kernel data
structures rather than reading and interpreting
