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 virtualization (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE80d [PATCH 2/8] fs: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE686d [PATCH RFC 5/5] non-mm: discourage the usage of __GFP_NOFAIL and encourage GFP_NOFAIL
  2024-07-24 · Barry Song <hidden>
• STALE1445d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 06/19] mm/migrate: Convert buffer_migrate_page() to buffer_migrate_folio()
  2022-06-08 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE1474d [PATCH 04/20] mm/migrate: Convert buffer_migrate_page() to buffer_migrate_folio()
  2022-06-06 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE1524d LANDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 25/27] block: add a bdev_discard_granularity helper
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1524d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 26/27] block: decouple REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1524d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 24/27] block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1524d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 11/27] block: add a bdev_nonrot helper
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 26/27] block: decouple REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 25/27] block: add a bdev_discard_granularity helper
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 24/27] block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 11/27] block: add a bdev_nonrot helper
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d [PATCH 26/27] block: uncouple REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d [PATCH 10/27] block: add a bdev_nonrot helper
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d [PATCH 24/27] block: add a bdev_discard_granularity helper
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1532d [PATCH 23/27] block: add a bdev_max_discard_sectors helper
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1664d LANDED [PATCH 26/29] fsdax: shift partition offset handling into the file systems
  2021-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1664d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 25/29] dax: return the partition offset from fs_dax_get_by_bdev
  2021-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1664d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 24/29] iomap: add a IOMAP_DAX flag
  2021-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1664d LANDED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 20/29] ext4: cleanup the dax handling in ext4_fill_super
  2021-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1664d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 18/29] fsdax: decouple zeroing from the iomap buffered I/O code
  2021-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1664d LANDED: 3 (1M) [PATCH 08/29] dax: remove dax_capable
  2021-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1671d [PATCH 26/29] fsdax: shift partition offset handling into the file systems
  2021-11-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1671d [PATCH 25/29] dax: return the partition offset from fs_dax_get_by_bdev
  2021-11-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1671d [PATCH 20/29] ext4: cleanup the dax handling in ext4_fill_super
  2021-11-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1671d [PATCH 18/29] fsdax: decouple zeroing from the iomap buffered I/O code
  2021-11-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1671d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 08/29] dax: remove dax_capable
  2021-11-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1690d [PATCH 07/11] dax: remove dax_capable
  2021-10-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2541d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v15 6/7] ext4: disable map_sync for async flush
  2019-07-05 · Pankaj Gupta <hidden>
• STALE2557d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v14 6/7] ext4: disable map_sync for async flush
  2019-06-21 · Pankaj Gupta <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.

• STALE80d [PATCH 2/8] fs: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>