From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 08:23:09 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 7DFDE16A4E8; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from virtual.micronet.sk (smtp.micronet.sk [84.16.32.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C1D43D60; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:22:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AA310E51E; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:22:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at virtual.micronet.sk Received: from virtual.micronet.sk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (virtual.micronet.sk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12MaalXhuUnf; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:22:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.50.0.2] (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CB510E51A; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:22:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:22:55 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1763944721.20060905102255@rulez.sk> To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20060905051319.GE81402@gothmog.pc> References: <2510186921.20060827034225@rulez.sk> <20060904043631.GA5039@gothmog.pc> <758763029.20060904225114@rulez.sk> <20060905051319.GE81402@gothmog.pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Rhodes , Daniel Gerzo , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: mount(8) async description X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Gerzo List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:23:09 -0000 Hello Giorgos, Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 7:13:19 AM, you wrote: > On 2006-09-04 22:51, Daniel Gerzo 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 , 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