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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.

Fic some `mandoc -Tlint` issues while here.

MFC after:	15 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18445
This commit is contained in:
Pedro F. Giffuni 2018-12-30 19:44:50 +00:00
parent 9362b6a394
commit 9d35d9a12a
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=342632
2 changed files with 27 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ 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

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@ -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 rodrigc@FreeBSD.org .