Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 21:39:11 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, ru@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where would a nullfs man page go? Message-ID: <20060529013911.GA17351@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <84dead720605281821k6fdc20dcve69c5b5b325c5c9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060528215447.GA6955@crodrigues.org> <84dead720605281821k6fdc20dcve69c5b5b325c5c9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 06:51:48AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > Section 5 is supposed to be about file formats, but > manual pages for devfs, ext2fs, fdescfs, linprocfs, > linsysfs, procfs, msdosfs, mqueuefs and reiserfs are > present in it. Most of these manual pages appear > to fit elsewhere since they do not talk about file format, > perhaps section 4 (drivers & kernel modules). ffs is > documented in section 7 (miscellaneous). pseudofs resides > in section 9. This should also be in section 4, like > miibus(4). Now that you mention it, I think that devfs, ext2fs, fdescfs, linprocfs, linsysfs, procfs, msdosfs, mqueuefs, and reiserfs all belong in section 4 (drivers & kernel modules). None of those man pages talk about the actual file format of any of those filesystems. I think a nullfs man page belongs in section 4. I think ffs(7) belongs in section 4 as well, since more or less it talks about the driver used for the FFS/UFS filesystem. I am to blame for putting devfs and ext2fs in section 5, because I just followed the convention that previous people followed. -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org
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