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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2003-03-25 23:02:34 -0500 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2003-03-25 23:02:34 -0500 |
| commit | fc05eb08baf4c971026f1daecc2278d43c7339f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1190f4e095cbd7c2a36dc3f9f1ca2d33cd6b8c41 /misc/chattr.1.in | |
| parent | bff0cc950b835bef92ade333e97842d408a2d1a1 (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-fc05eb08baf4c971026f1daecc2278d43c7339f6.tar.gz | |
Fixed chattr man page to clarify description of the 't' (no tail)
attribute.
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/chattr.1.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/chattr.1.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/misc/chattr.1.in b/misc/chattr.1.in index ed9e64b0..a2957b47 100644 --- a/misc/chattr.1.in +++ b/misc/chattr.1.in @@ -101,10 +101,11 @@ directory hierarchies for the purposes of the Orlov block allocator (which is used in on systems with Linux 2.5.46 or later). .PP A file with the 't' attribute will not have a partial block fragment at -the of the file merged with other files (for those filesystems which +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 who don't understand tail-merged -files. +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. .PP When a file with the `u' attribute set is deleted, its contents are saved. This allows the user to ask for its undeletion. |