From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 05:13:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D27D16A4DA; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7729C43D49; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:13:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k855D0v0008314 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:13:01 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k855DL2n082735; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:13:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k855DJUI082730; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:13:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:13:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Daniel Gerzo Message-ID: <20060905051319.GE81402@gothmog.pc> References: <2510186921.20060827034225@rulez.sk> <20060904043631.GA5039@gothmog.pc> <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.019, required 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL -0.42, BAYES_00 -2.60, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Tom Rhodes , Daniel Gerzo , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount(8) async description X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:13:14 -0000 --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2006-09-04 22:51, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello Giorgos, >=20 > Monday, September 4, 2006, 6:36:31 AM, you wrote: >=20 > > Hi Daniel and everyone else, >=20 > > 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? >=20 > > 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 , and using the > > backup/newfs text suggested by Daniel): >=20 > > 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. >=20 > > Does this look less wordy and still useful as a change? >=20 > I like it! Right then. If there are no comments during the next few days, I can fix the 'dengerous' typo spotted by Remko and commit this, or do you Daniel want to do it? =20 --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE/Qdv1g+UGjGGA7YRAh3bAJ9xk3xR+U01BYtr5Cctty3y1zSzLgCgrKTR jC2QlRKg01IQpkrptqdLhH0= =SHEZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi--