From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 15:51:38 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 D62511065670; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:51:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDF68FC16; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so3906515qwg.13 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:51:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TubtP7CNanhx+m8DTS52dCn998WDGQm1JjZyQ7a8S2o=; b=SouhNlVnI6tGpd6VEBNyYwoE6cDm0sfJrJj1A1qB0PJWnHoo5flqXxUNVpYvYSDQQ+ h0UQuEbckcIIk72/HUJbB5UQ+W57lzzpwAWf3mzmh3cEobmD3uRMjLoXeEB9OSxkwep0 OYJbg8A8DvVV0IP7qwz5fSTOsWhFabOy3Velc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=MsiatsqvnRjNyPI1O+XIiCMuU6UyXF22Vtqxf8Rv5BdWp8+XJaWSgUhosNc1wOCADP 7l8Fq6XnKP089J3Yj8fm0zZuPjGiGlBERCIKZusM2E8a+RhBza4RLh+Cv8VfH8+T8AYq IZ0/7JZrbkqJo7JE1jKPElfpggxmVe8pO79pQ= Received: by 10.224.102.146 with SMTP id g18mr387618qao.200.1284391316004; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t24sm6485467qcs.11.2010.09.13.08.21.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C8E418F.8010008@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:21:51 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201009111550.o8BFo7J6033530@freefall.freebsd.org> <201009131004.51306.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009131004.51306.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org 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 15:51:39 -0000 On 9/13/10 10:04 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > 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). > Good, that's the one I picked too. :) Regards, -- Glen Barber