Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:09:15 +0930 From: Matthew May <mdmay74@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mount(8) async description Message-ID: <44FD45C3.7090907@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20060904120036.8441716A4F5@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060904120036.8441716A4F5@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 2006-09-04 07:36, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Hi Daniel and everyone else, > > In retrospect, having let this sink down for a few days, I think we > should also bear in mind Ruslan Ermilov's comments about referring to > the reader in second person. Is there any way we can keep the same > meaning, stress the dangers of using ``-o async'' *and* avoid using > ``you'' in the text? > > This is definitely far across the borders of nit-picking, but perhaps > we can use something like this (based on the OpenBSD version, with the > fixes suggested by Matthew May <mdmay74@internode.on.net>, and using > the backup/newfs text suggested by Daniel): > > async All I/O to the file system should be done asynchronously. > This is a dengerous flag to set, since it does not guarantee > that the file system structure on the disk will remain > consistent. For this reason, the `async' flag should not be > used unless some application-specific data recovery > mechanism is present, or recreation of the file system is > not a problem. > > Does this look less wordy and still useful as a change? > > - Giorgos Hi Giorgos, After a quick s/dengerous/dangerous/ I'd be happy with that :-) MAtt.
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