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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-25

Recent patches

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

• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 2/2] tracing: Remove trace_printk.h from kernel.h
  2026-06-25 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: ext4: add missing COMPAT_ORPHAN_FILE feature flag name
  2026-06-05 · Mathieu Morcos <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD56d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE69d [PATCH] fix broken links in bpf, driver_api & filesystem documentation
  2026-05-05 · Jeremy Bobbin <hidden>
• STALE173d 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>
• STALE130d [PATCH 06/24] ext4: add setlease file operation
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE222d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE224d [PATCH] Documentation: ext4: Document casefold and encrypt flags
  2025-11-19 · Daniel Tang <hidden>
• 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>
• STALE245d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE271d [PATCH] ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description
  2025-09-25 · Zeno Endemann <hidden>
• STALE318d LANDED [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes
  2025-08-19 · Mallikarjun Thammanavar <hidden>
• STALE350d [PATCH] Fixed commit: Fixes Sphinx warnings about duplicate reference labels in Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst.
  2025-07-29 · Andre Luiz da Nobrega <hidden>
• STALE361d LANDED [PATCH v6 5/5] ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
  2025-07-16 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE361d LANDED [PATCH v6 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-16 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE362d [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-10 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE362d [PATCH v5 5/5] ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
  2025-07-10 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE370d [PATCH v4 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-07 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE370d [PATCH v4 5/5] ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
  2025-07-07 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE375d [PATCH v3 4/4] ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
  2025-06-27 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE375d [PATCH v3 3/4] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-06-27 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE381d [PATCH v2 4/5] ext4: handle IOCB_DONTCACHE in buffered write path
  2025-06-24 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE381d [PATCH v2 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-06-24 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE381d [PATCH v2 5/5] ext4: declare support for FOP_DONTCACHE
  2025-06-24 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE376d LANDED [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: ext4: Move inode table short docs into its own file
  2025-06-20 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE376d LANDED [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: ext4: Convert includes into toctrees
  2025-06-20 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE376d LANDED [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: ext4: Reduce toctree depth
  2025-06-20 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE376d LANDED [PATCH 3/5] Documentation: ext4: atomic_writes: Demote last three sections
  2025-06-20 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>

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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: ext4: add missing COMPAT_ORPHAN_FILE feature flag name
  2026-06-05 · Mathieu Morcos <hidden>