Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:22:55 +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: <1763944721.20060905102255@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <20060905051319.GE81402@gothmog.pc> References: <2510186921.20060827034225@rulez.sk> <20060904043631.GA5039@gothmog.pc> <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk> <20060905051319.GE81402@gothmog.pc>
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Hello Giorgos, Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 7:13:19 AM, you wrote: > On 2006-09-04 22:51, Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> wrote: >> 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! > 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? > If you wish to do it by yourself, then go ahead. If you want me to do it, I have no problem to send diff for review and then possibly commit. -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@rulez.sk
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