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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2019-11-17 17:48:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2019-11-18 12:14:33 -0500 |
| commit | f08f1c6492604c4d0b392ff1dd7710d81a906cf9 (patch) | |
| tree | e3ba19fddc4a411c94a669c34ac9df5a96d87c8a | |
| parent | 26d6e57c5cd5768d5103be99eccba8efd7956433 (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-f08f1c6492604c4d0b392ff1dd7710d81a906cf9.tar.gz | |
chattr.1: clarify that ext4 doesn't support tail-merging either
This old text was never updated to mention ext4 in addition to ext2 and
ext3. Do so now. Also don't bother to mention old unmerged patches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/chattr.1.in | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/misc/chattr.1.in b/misc/chattr.1.in index cc751fe84..870397ae0 100644 --- a/misc/chattr.1.in +++ b/misc/chattr.1.in @@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ A file with the 't' attribute will not have a partial block fragment at the end of the file merged with other files (for those filesystems which support tail-merging). This is necessary for applications such as LILO which read the filesystem directly, and which don't understand tail-merged -files. Note: As of this writing, the ext2 or ext3 filesystems do not -(yet, except in very experimental patches) support tail-merging. +files. Note: As of this writing, the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems do +not support tail-merging. .PP A directory with the 'T' attribute will be deemed to be the top of directory hierarchies for the purposes of the Orlov block allocator. |