ext4 file system · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
• R Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
• R Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
• R Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• R Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
• R Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• R Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/ext4/
• F fs/ext4/
• F include/trace/events/ext4.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ext4.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-cifs (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD49d [PATCH v2 2/4] ext4: convert mballoc KUnit test to sget_fc()
  2026-05-29 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 1/4] ext4: convert extents KUnit test to sget_fc()
  2026-05-29 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 2/8] ext4: convert mballoc KUnit test to sget_fc()
  2026-05-26 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 1/8] ext4: convert extents KUnit test to sget_fc()
  2026-05-26 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE64d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE64d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH v10 08/17] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-04-23 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH v9 08/17] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-04-22 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE116d [PATCH 32/53] ext4: move dcache modifying code out of __ext4_link()
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH 33/53] ext4: use on-stack dentries in ext4_fc_replay_link_internal()
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE139d [PATCH v2 061/110] ext4: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE139d [PATCH v2 007/110] ext4: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE143d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 3/4] folio_batch: Rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 2/4] fs: Remove unncessary pagevec.h includes
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v8 08/17] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-02-17 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v7 07/16] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-01-22 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v6 07/16] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-01-20 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH v2 04/31] ext4: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE186d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5 07/16] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-01-16 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE179d [PATCH 03/29] ext4: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-15 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE186d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 07/16] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-01-14 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE188d [PATCH v3 07/16] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get
  2026-01-12 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH 06/24] ext4: add setlease file operation
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE230d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE253d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE126d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE143d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 1/8] ext4: convert extents KUnit test to sget_fc()
  2026-05-26 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>