From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270000AbTGZVGo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:06:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270013AbTGZVGn (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:06:43 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:19145 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270000AbTGZVG1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:06:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:21:28 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Jeff Sipek , Linus Torvalds , lkml Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] use ext2/ext3 consistently in Kconfig Message-ID: <20030726212128.GB16798@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030726195722.GB16160@louise.pinerecords.com> <200307261621.55553.jeffpc@optonline.net> <6ud6fx118p.fsf@zork.zork.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ud6fx118p.fsf@zork.zork.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [sneakums@zork.net] > > Jeff Sipek writes: > > > On Saturday 26 July 2003 15:57, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > >> @@ -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.