Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.43.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi. Currently "commit" for ext3 documented so:
.BI commit= nrsec Sync all data and metadata every .I nrsec seconds. The default value is 5 seconds. Zero means default. And in the beginning of ext4: The options .B journal_dev, norecovery, noload, data, commit, orlov, oldalloc, [no]user_xattr .B [no]acl, bsddf, minixdf, debug, errors, data_err, grpid, bsdgroups, nogrpid .B sysvgroups, resgid, resuid, sb, quota, noquota, grpquota, usrquota .B usrjquota, grpjquota and jqfmt are backwardly compatible with ext3 or ext2. So, it seems from man that ext4 has same "commit" option and its default value is 5 seconds (even if I don't specify "commit" at command line at all). But it seems that this is wrong ( https://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ ). So, please, fix the man. I tried to fill the bug report to util-linux ( https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/479 ), but they removed description of ext* from their manual and said that ext* description will be in e2fsprogs manual only. But e2fsprogs seems to want bugs filled to downstream distros ( https://sourceforge.net/p/e2fsprogs/discussion/7053/thread/2caf9bc1/?limit=25 ), so I am posting here. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.43.4-2 ii libblkid1 2.29.2-1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcomerr2 1.43.4-2 ii libss2 1.43.4-2 ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1 ii util-linux 2.29.2-1 e2fsprogs recommends no packages. Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests: pn e2fsck-static <none> pn fuse2fs <none> pn gpart <none> ii parted 3.2-17 -- no debconf information
