Define a new ext2 file attribute, EXT2_NOTAIL_FL,
which signals that a particular inode should not have the
last bits of data (the "tail") be merged with another
file. This is necessary to keep programs like LILO happy.
diff --git a/misc/chattr.1.in b/misc/chattr.1.in
index 815e9c8..82f054b 100644
--- a/misc/chattr.1.in
+++ b/misc/chattr.1.in
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.B chattr
changes the file attributes on a Linux second extended file system.
.PP
-The format of a symbolic mode is +-=[ASacdisu].
+The format of a symbolic mode is +-=[ASacdistu].
.PP
The operator `+' causes the selected attributes to be added to the
existing attributes of the files; `-' causes them to be removed; and
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@
the changes are written synchronously on the disk; this is equivalent to
the `sync' mount option applied to a subset of the files.
.PP
+A file with the 't' attribute will not have a partial block fragment at
+the of the file merged with other files (for those filesystems which
+support tail-merging). This is necessary for applications such as LILO
+which read the filesystem directly, and who don't understand tail-merged
+files.
+.PP
When a file with the `u' attribute set is deleted, its contents are saved.
This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.
.PP