From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 15:10:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A5E106564A for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:10:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA998FC1A for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C71A46BC8; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:10:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F0438A04F; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:04:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100819; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201009111550.o8BFo7J6033530@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009111550.o8BFo7J6033530@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009131004.51306.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: docs/150490: newfs man page clarification 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: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:10:40 -0000 On Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:50:07 am Eitan Adler wrote: > The following reply was made to PR docs/150490; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Eitan Adler > To: Peter Pentchev > Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: docs/150490: newfs man page clarification > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:20:06 -0400 > > > [snip] > >> -NB: Erasing may take as long time as writing every sector on the disk. > >> +NB: Erasing may take as long time as it writes to every sector on the d= > isk. > > > > Uhm, I believe the original wording is correct. =C2=A0The "as" in "as wri= > ting" here > > does not stand for "because"; it's part of a "as ... as ..." construction > > which... oh, well, all right :) =C2=A0I guess it might be a bit clearer t= > o say > > something like: > > > > =C2=A0Erasing may take time as long as writing every sector on the disk. > > > > ...or something like that, though it's not much clearer than the original= > :) > > The original author's point here is that the time that erasing takes is > > as long (a time) as (the time it takes) writing every sector on the disk. > > > > Or something like that :) > > > > Erasing the disk will take as much time as it takes to write to every > sector on the disk. > Erasing may take a long time as it writes to every sector on the disk. > Erasing will take as much time as writing every sector to disk takes. > > Take your pick ;-) > > If it matters I'm a native speaker and the original sentence does not > make sense to me as is. Agreed, all three of those options are better than the original. I would probably vote for 2). -- John Baldwin