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)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/19] buffer: stop clearing BH_Uptodate when a write fails
  2026-08-01 22:01 · 1 reply in 7d · Chao Shi <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH 08/19] ext2: check for an xattr block write error with buffer_write_io_error()
  2026-08-01 · Chao Shi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.40
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.97
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING10d Re: Linux 6.6.145
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD17d Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] Support Clang context analysis for ext2
  2026-07-14 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d Re: [PATCH v1 1/9] ext2: fix ext2_xattr_delete_inode() context analysis warning
  2026-07-13 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 9/9] ext2: enabled context analysis support for ext2 filesystem
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 8/9] ext2: annotate s_rsv_window_root as requiring s_rsv_window_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 7/9] ext2: annotate block-mapping helpers as requiring truncate_mutex
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 6/9] ext2: annotate ext2_init_block_alloc_info() as requiring truncate_mutex
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 4/9] ext2: mark statfs overhead cache as guarded by s_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 5/9] ext2: mark s_mount_state as guarded by s_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 3/9] ext2: annotate ext2_update_dynamic_rev() as requiring s_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 2/9] ext2: mark s_next_generation as guarded by s_next_gen_lock
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v1 1/9] ext2: fix ext2_xattr_delete_inode() context analysis warning
  2026-07-12 · Timothy Day <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2 17/18] iomap: pass iomap_next_fn directly instead of struct iomap_ops
  2026-07-01 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2 09/18] ext2: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  2026-07-01 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2 08/31] ext2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
  2026-06-30 · Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
• STALE63d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE63d [PATCH] ext2: fix ignored return value of generic_write_sync()
  2026-05-30 · Danila Chernetsov <hidden>
• STALE64d [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>
• STALE69d [PATCH v2] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
  2026-05-24 · Ashwin Gundarapu <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
  2026-05-23 · Ashwin Gundarapu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.140
  2026-05-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.4
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE89d Re: Linux 6.18.27
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.86
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE157d [PATCH 31/61] ext2: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE152d [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 2/2] ext2: guard against zero i_nlink on new_inode in ext2_rename()
  2026-04-01 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>
• STALE121d [PATCH 1/2] ext2: validate i_nlink before decrement in ext2_unlink()
  2026-04-01 · Vasiliy Kovalev <hidden>
• STALE74d [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>
• STALE74d [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>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.86
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE89d Re: Linux 6.18.27
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.4
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.140
  2026-05-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>