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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH v3 00/20] iomap: convert to in-iter iomap_next() model
  2026-07-20 21:02 · 2 replies in 7d · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
  2 attestations (1 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-20
• Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-20

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH v3 19/20] iomap: pass iomap_iter_next_fn directly instead of struct iomap_ops
  2026-07-20 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 11/20] ext2: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  2026-07-20 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 09/21] ext2: Fix data integrity writeout issues
  2026-07-16 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 07/21] ext2: Drop __ext2_write_inode()
  2026-07-16 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 08/21] ext2: Avoid unnecessary inode buffer writeback for sync(2)
  2026-07-16 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 06/21] ext2: Fix lost inode updates for IS_SYNC inodes
  2026-07-16 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COOLING9d Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] Support Clang context analysis for ext2
  2026-07-14 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d Re: [PATCH v1 1/9] ext2: fix ext2_xattr_delete_inode() context analysis warning
  2026-07-13 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 9/9] ext2: enabled context analysis support for ext2 filesystem
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 8/9] ext2: annotate s_rsv_window_root as requiring s_rsv_window_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 7/9] ext2: annotate block-mapping helpers as requiring truncate_mutex
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 6/9] ext2: annotate ext2_init_block_alloc_info() as requiring truncate_mutex
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 4/9] ext2: mark statfs overhead cache as guarded by s_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 5/9] ext2: mark s_mount_state as guarded by s_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 3/9] ext2: annotate ext2_update_dynamic_rev() as requiring s_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 2/9] ext2: mark s_next_generation as guarded by s_next_gen_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 1/9] ext2: fix ext2_xattr_delete_inode() context analysis warning
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v3 08/19] ext2: Fix data integrity writeout issues
  2026-07-02 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COLD23d [PATCH v3 06/19] ext2: Avoid unnecessary inode buffer writeback for sync(2)
  2026-07-02 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COLD23d [PATCH v3 05/19] ext2: Drop __ext2_write_inode()
  2026-07-02 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COLD25d [PATCH] Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operation
  2026-07-01 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 17/18] iomap: pass iomap_next_fn directly instead of struct iomap_ops
  2026-07-01 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 09/18] ext2: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  2026-07-01 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COLD25d [PATCH v2 08/31] ext2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
  2026-06-30 · Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
• COLD53d [PATCH v2 04/10] ext2: Fix possibly missing inode write on fsync(2)
  2026-05-25 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE75d [PATCH 4/9] ext2: Fix possibly missing inode write on fsync(2)
  2026-05-11 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE116d [PATCH 34/42] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE116d [PATCH 18/42] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE123d [PATCH 32/41] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE123d [PATCH 16/41] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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.

• STALE186d 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.

• STALE149d [PATCH 31/61] ext2: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE139d [PATCH 04/32] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-03 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE139d [PATCH 23/32] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-03 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE123d [PATCH 16/41] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE123d [PATCH 32/41] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-20 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE116d [PATCH 18/42] ext2: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from ext2_evict_inode()
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE116d [PATCH 34/42] ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  2026-03-26 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE75d [PATCH 4/9] ext2: Fix possibly missing inode write on fsync(2)
  2026-05-11 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• COLD53d [PATCH v2 04/10] ext2: Fix possibly missing inode write on fsync(2)
  2026-05-25 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>