On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:17:36PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 12:00:52PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst > > @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Caveats > > Check your drive's rating, and don't wear down your drive's lifetime if you > > don't need to. > > > > -* If you mount some of your ext3/reiserfs filesystems with the -n option, then > > +* If you mount some of your ext3 filesystems with the -n option, then > > Should this be updated to ext4? ;-) > > > @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ Control script:: > > FST=$(deduce_fstype $MP) > > fi > > case "$FST" in > > - "ext3"|"reiserfs") > > + "ext3") > > ... uh. Maybe much more significant work is needed ;-) > > > +++ b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst > > @@ -315,7 +315,6 @@ network daemons and file systems that didn't need to be disturbed. > > ideally, the reset should happen at or below the block layer, > > so that the file systems are not disturbed. > > > > - Reiserfs does not tolerate errors returned from the block device. > > Ext3fs seems to be tolerant, retrying reads/writes until it does > > succeed. Both have been only lightly tested in this scenario. > > "Both" is now orphaned with the removal of ReiserFS. And the ext3 > sentence has an implicit reference to "errors returned from the block > device" that is now missing. A wider change is needed here. Yes, the ext3 mentions stand out in the documentation. I don't think it could be changed to ext4 in all places, there's a mix of historical references, quotes and 'scripts in documentation'.
