Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:51:14 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: mount(8) async description Message-ID: <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <20060904043631.GA5039@gothmog.pc> References: <2510186921.20060827034225@rulez.sk> <20060904043631.GA5039@gothmog.pc>
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Hello Giorgos, Monday, September 4, 2006, 6:36:31 AM, you 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? I like it! > - Giorgos -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@rulez.sk
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