Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:12:27 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, danfe@nsu.ru, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030106181227.680b6b15.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <20030105082155.GA51107@regency.nsu.ru> <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 23:05:42 +0000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > 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. > I dislike this for several reasons: 1: Currently the mount_msdosfs(8) manual page has nothing about kernel configuration. 2: I feel strongly that modules (such as msdosfs.ko) should have a manual page with information relating to it. 3: How many NEW users know about the existance of mount_msdosfs(8) at all? Its alot easier on the newbie to man msdos or man msdosfs for information. I'll move it over to section 4, in fact thats where I was originally going to put it. If thats the general desire then I'll do so later. -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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