ext2 file system · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/ext2.rst
• F fs/ext2/
• F include/linux/ext2*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD28d [PATCH] ext2: fix ignored return value of generic_write_sync()
  2026-05-30 · Danila Chernetsov <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH v2 04/10] ext2: Fix possibly missing inode write on fsync(2)
  2026-05-25 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COLD28d [PATCH v4] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
  2026-05-24 · Ashwin Gundarapu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
  2026-05-24 · Ashwin Gundarapu <hidden>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
  2026-05-24 · Ashwin Gundarapu <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
  2026-05-23 · Ashwin Gundarapu <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH 4/9] ext2: Fix possibly missing inode write on fsync(2)
  2026-05-11 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COLD39d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] ext2: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON_ONCE in ext2_get_blocks
  2026-04-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD39d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.6] ext2: avoid drop_nlink() during unlink of zero-nlink inode in ext2_unlink()
  2026-04-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE83d [PATCH v3] ext2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate
  2026-04-05 · David Carlier <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH] ext2: reject inodes with zero i_nlink and valid mode in ext2_iget()
  2026-04-04 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 2/2] ext2: guard against zero i_nlink on new_inode in ext2_rename()
  2026-04-01 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 1/2] ext2: validate i_nlink before decrement in ext2_unlink()
  2026-04-01 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH 34/42] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE89d [PATCH 18/42] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE95d [PATCH 32/41] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE95d [PATCH 16/41] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE104d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE104d [PATCH v3 06/12] ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE111d [PATCH 23/32] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-03 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE111d [PATCH 04/32] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-03 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE117d [PATCH v2 082/110] ext2: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v2 029/110] ext2: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH 31/61] ext2: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE122d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] block: enable RWF_DONTCACHE for block devices
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH RFC] block: enable RWF_DONTCACHE for block devices
  2026-02-18 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH] ext2: avoid drop_nlink() during unlink of zero-nlink inode in ext2_unlink()
  2026-02-11 · Ziyi Guo <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH] ext2: guard reservation window dump with EXT2FS_DEBUG
  2026-02-07 · Milos Nikic <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH] ext2: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON_ONCE in ext2_get_blocks
  2026-02-07 · Milos Nikic <hidden>

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.

• STALE164d REVIEWED: 14 (13M) [PATCH 1/6] uapi: promote EFSCORRUPTED and EUCLEAN to errno.h
  2026-01-13 · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE158d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 05/31] ext2: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-19 · 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.

• STALE121d [PATCH 31/61] ext2: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE111d [PATCH 04/32] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-03 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE111d [PATCH 23/32] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-03 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE95d [PATCH 16/41] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE95d [PATCH 32/41] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE89d [PATCH 18/42] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE89d [PATCH 34/42] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE86d [PATCH 2/2] ext2: guard against zero i_nlink on new_inode in ext2_rename()
  2026-04-01 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 1/2] ext2: validate i_nlink before decrement in ext2_unlink()
  2026-04-01 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>