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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5
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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...
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