Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:13:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount(8) async description Message-ID: <20060905051319.GE81402@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk> References: <2510186921.20060827034225@rulez.sk> <20060904043631.GA5039@gothmog.pc> <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk>
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--DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2006-09-04 22:51, Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> 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 <mdmay74@internode.on.net>, 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--
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