Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:07:10 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030106150710.A21901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk>; from dot@dotat.at on Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:05:42PM %2B0000 References: <20030105082155.GA51107@regency.nsu.ru> <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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* De: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> [ Data: 2003-01-06 ] [ Subjecte: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 ] > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:31:28PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Not quite. Section 4 is for devices and device drivers. File systems > > aren't devices or device drivers. ffs.7 was originally in section 4, > > but was moved to a less wrong place. msdosfs.5 belongs with ffs.7. > > The documented place for finding filesystem documentation is in the > appropriate mount_foofs manual page. The mount(2) manual says: > > By convention filesystem manual > pages are named by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the filesystem as > returned by lsvfs(1). Thus the NFS filesystem is described by the > mount_nfs(8) manual page. > > Since there is already a mount_msdosfs(8) manual page the msdosfs(5) page > should be deleted. FreeBSD is doubly buggy w.r.t. ffs since there isn't > a mount_ffs program to go with the correctly-named manual page. This is a symtpom of the larger bug that unlike the other BSDs we still call it UFS, even if we're explicitly using FFS in the kernel... -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet. OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer. ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict. FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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