From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] use ext2/ext3 consistently in Kconfig
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:21:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030726212128.GB16798@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ud6fx118p.fsf@zork.zork.net>
> [sneakums@zork.net]
>
> Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net> writes:
>
> > On Saturday 26 July 2003 15:57, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
> >> tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
> >> help
> >> This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system
> >> - (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
> >> + (often called ext2), the de facto standard Linux file system
> >
> > The journaling version is ext3, not ext2...
>
> But the *second* extended file system is indeed often called ext2.
Oh well, I guess I should have rephrased this wonderful little
stylistics exhibit in the first place.
diff -urN a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
--- a/fs/Kconfig 2003-06-14 23:07:12.000000000 +0200
+++ b/fs/Kconfig 2003-07-26 23:18:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
menu "File systems"
config EXT2_FS
- tristate "Second extended fs support"
+ tristate "Ext2 fs support"
help
This is the de facto standard Linux file system (method to organize
files on a storage device) for hard disks.
@@ -86,11 +86,12 @@
extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
config EXT3_FS
- tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
+ tristate "Ext3 journaling file system support"
help
- This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system
- (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
- (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
+ Ext3 is a jornaling version of the Second extended fs
+ (or just ext2fs), the de facto standard Linux filesystem
+ (method to organize files on a storage device) for block
+ devices such as hard disk partitions.
The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have
to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@
default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m
config REISERFS_FS
- tristate "Reiserfs support"
+ tristate "Reiserfs support (for v3.5 & v3.6 filesystems)"
help
Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
tree. Uses journaling.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-26 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-26 19:57 [TRIVIAL] use ext2/ext3 consistently in Kconfig Tomas Szepe
2003-07-26 20:21 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-26 20:28 ` Sean Neakums
2003-07-26 21:21 ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2003-07-26 21:30 ` Sean Neakums
2003-07-26 21:40 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-26 20:52 ` Kurt Wall
2003-07-26 21:01 ` Sean Neakums
2003-07-27 11:05 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:23 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-27 13:59 ` Hans Reiser
2003-08-05 7:29 Tomas Szepe
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