@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ install: $(PROGS) $(MANPAGES) $(FMANPAGES) installdirs
$(ES) " INSTALL $(root_sbindir)/$$i"; \
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(root_sbindir)/$$i; \
done
- $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4; do \
+ $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4 bootfs; do \
$(ES) " LINK $(root_sbindir)/fsck.$$i"; \
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(root_sbindir); \
$(LN) $(LINK_INSTALL_FLAGS) e2fsck fsck.$$i); \
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ install: $(PROGS) $(MANPAGES) $(FMANPAGES) installdirs
$(ES) " INSTALL_DATA $(man5dir)/$$i"; \
$(INSTALL_DATA) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(man5dir)/$$i; \
done
- $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4; do \
+ $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4 bootfs; do \
$(ES) " LINK $(man8dir)/fsck.$$i.8"; \
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(man8dir); \
$(LN) $(LINK_INSTALL_FLAGS) e2fsck.8 fsck.$$i.8); \
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ install: all $(SMANPAGES) $(UMANPAGES) installdirs
$(ES) " INSTALL $(sbindir)/$$i"; \
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/$$i; \
done
- $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4; do \
+ $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4 bootfs; do \
$(ES) " LINK $(root_sbindir)/mkfs.$$i"; \
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(root_sbindir); \
$(LN) $(LINK_INSTALL_FLAGS) mke2fs mkfs.$$i); \
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ install: all $(SMANPAGES) $(UMANPAGES) installdirs
done
$(Q) $(RM) -f $(DESTDIR)$(man8dir)/mkfs.ext2.8.gz \
$(DESTDIR)$(man8dir)/mkfs.ext3.8.gz
- $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4; do \
+ $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 ext4 bootfs; do \
$(ES) " LINK mkfs.$$i.8"; \
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(man8dir); \
$(LN) $(LINK_INSTALL_FLAGS) mke2fs.8 mkfs.$$i.8); \
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ install: all $(SMANPAGES) $(UMANPAGES) installdirs
$(ES) " INSTALL_DATA $(man5dir)/$$i"; \
$(INSTALL_DATA) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(man5dir)/$$i; \
done
- $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3; do \
+ $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 bootfs; do \
$(ES) " LINK $$i.5"; \
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(man5dir); \
$(LN) $(LINK_INSTALL_FLAGS) ext4.5 $$i.5); \
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ uninstall:
for i in $(FMANPAGES); do \
$(RM) -f $(DESTDIR)$(man5dir)/$$i; \
done
- $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3; do \
+ $(Q) for i in ext2 ext3 bootfs; do \
$(ES) " LINK $$i.5"; \
$(RM) -f $(DESTDIR)$(man5dir)/$$i.5; \
done
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ ext2 \- the second extended file system
ext3 \- the third extended file system
.br
ext4 \- the fourth extended file system
+.br
+bootfs \- the simple bootloader file system
.SH DESCRIPTION
The second, third, and fourth extended file systems, or ext2, ext3, and
ext4 as they are commonly known, are Linux file systems that have
@@ -19,6 +21,9 @@ previously intended for use with the ext2 and ext3 file systems can be
mounted using the ext4 file system driver, and indeed in many modern
Linux distributions, the ext4 file system driver has been configured
to handle mount requests for ext2 and ext3 file systems.
+bootfs is a simple bootloader filesystem that trades thirty years' worth of
+filesystem design and speed improvements for safety in the face of poorly
+written userspace software and bootloaders; it is basically ext3 with extents.
.SH FILE SYSTEM FEATURES
A file system formatted for ext2, ext3, or ext4 can have some
collection of the following file system feature flags enabled. Some of
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
ext3 = {
features = has_journal
}
+ bootfs = {
+ features = has_journal,extent
+ }
ext4 = {
features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,metadata_csum,64bit,dir_nlink,extra_isize
inode_size = 256