svn commit: r341505 - head/share/man/man5

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 01:46:54PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> On 05/12/2018 12:41, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > The Linux model is that the current incarnation of the ext2/3/4 driver
> > is named "ext4," and that's what Linux users expect.  You can mount
> > any ext2/3/4 filesystem with the Linux ext4 driver.  For ext4, it was
> > a result of wanting to keep ext3 stable while developing ext4 in-tree.
> > (For a while, it was called "ext4dev").  ext4 is long-since stabilized
> > and ext3 became fully redundant with ext4, so I guess they dropped it.
> 
>  From a linux user/marketing perspective you are right.
> 
> Are we sure there will never be an ext5fs? I would hate to start moving
> a filesystem in the tree every time a new release comes out.

+1.  I really hate it how Linux stirs things around, including naming,
and I'd advise against it.  Current name is fine; update the manpage and
move on.  We do expect our users to read documentation, don't we?

./danfe