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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst47
-rw-r--r--Documentation/index.rst2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst
index 47f614c47f56..9d4368d591fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst
@@ -20,43 +20,32 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
found at the ext4 wiki site at the URL:
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto
- - Compile and install the latest version of e2fsprogs (as of this
- writing version 1.41.3) from:
+ - The latest version of e2fsprogs can be found at:
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2406
+ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/
or
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/
+ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2406
or grab the latest git repository from:
- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
-
- - Note that it is highly important to install the mke2fs.conf file
- that comes with the e2fsprogs 1.41.x sources in /etc/mke2fs.conf. If
- you have edited the /etc/mke2fs.conf file installed on your system,
- you will need to merge your changes with the version from e2fsprogs
- 1.41.x.
+ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
- - Create a new filesystem using the ext4 filesystem type:::
+ - Create a new filesystem using the ext4 filesystem type:
# mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/hda1
- Or to configure an existing ext3 filesystem to support extents:::
+ Or to configure an existing ext3 filesystem to support extents:
# tune2fs -O extents /dev/hda1
If the filesystem was created with 128 byte inodes, it can be
- converted to use 256 byte for greater efficiency via:::
+ converted to use 256 byte for greater efficiency via:
# tune2fs -I 256 /dev/hda1
- (Note: we currently do not have tools to convert an ext4
- filesystem back to ext3; so please do not do try this on production
- filesystems.)
-
- - Mounting:::
+ - Mounting:
# mount -t ext4 /dev/hda1 /wherever
@@ -106,26 +95,6 @@ Currently Available
[1] Filesystems with a block size of 1k may see a limit imposed by the
directory hash tree having a maximum depth of two.
-Candidate Features for Future Inclusion
----------------------------------------
-
-* online defrag (patches available but not well tested)
-* reduced mke2fs time via lazy itable initialization in conjunction with
- the uninit_bg feature (capability to do this is available in e2fsprogs
- but a kernel thread to do lazy zeroing of unused inode table blocks
- after filesystem is first mounted is required for safety)
-
-There are several others under discussion, whether they all make it in is
-partly a function of how much time everyone has to work on them. Features like
-metadata checksumming have been discussed and planned for a bit but no patches
-exist yet so I'm not sure they're in the near-term roadmap.
-
-The big performance win will come with mballoc, delalloc and flex_bg
-grouping of bitmaps and inode tables. Some test results available here:
-
- - http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20080818-ffsb/ffsb-write-2.6.27-rc1.html
- - http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20080818-ffsb/ffsb-readwrite-2.6.27-rc1.html
-
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diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
index 65c22b1ff5f2..f95ba981f8cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/index.rst
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ The documentation in this section are provided by specific filesystem
subprojects.
.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 4
+ :maxdepth: 2
filesystems/ext4/index