We print "extents" for the feature, so we should document "extents" in
the mke2fs's man page, even though we accept both "extent" and
"extents".
Addresses-Sourceforge-Bug: #
3559210
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
.B dir_index
Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories.
.TP
-.B extent
+.B extents
Instead of using the indirect block scheme for storing the location of
data blocks in an inode, use extents instead. This is a much more
efficient encoding which speeds up filesystem access, especially for
-large files.
+large files. (Note: both extent and extents are accepted for
+historical/backwards compatibility reasons.)
.TP
.B filetype
Store file type information in directory entries.