svn commit: r342632 - head/share/man/man5

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

Author: pfg
Date: Sun Dec 30 19:44:50 2018
New Revision: 342632
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342632

Log:
  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

Modified:
  head/share/man/man5/Makefile
  head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5

Modified: head/share/man/man5/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/Makefile	Sun Dec 30 16:39:26 2018	(r342631)
+++ head/share/man/man5/Makefile	Sun Dec 30 19:44:50 2018	(r342632)
@@ -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

Modified: head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5	Sun Dec 30 16:39:26 2018	(r342631)
+++ head/share/man/man5/ext2fs.5	Sun Dec 30 19:44:50 2018	(r342632)
@@ -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 at FreeBSD.org .