Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 23:05:42 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:31:28PM %2B1100 References: <20030105082155.GA51107@regency.nsu.ru> <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:31:28PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> Not quite. Section 4 is for devices and device drivers. File systems
> aren't devices or device drivers. ffs.7 was originally in section 4,
> but was moved to a less wrong place. msdosfs.5 belongs with ffs.7.
The documented place for finding filesystem documentation is in the
appropriate mount_foofs manual page. The mount(2) manual says:
By convention filesystem manual
pages are named by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the filesystem as
returned by lsvfs(1). Thus the NFS filesystem is described by the
mount_nfs(8) manual page.
Since there is already a mount_msdosfs(8) manual page the msdosfs(5) page
should be deleted. FreeBSD is doubly buggy w.r.t. ffs since there isn't
a mount_ffs program to go with the correctly-named manual page.
Tony.
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