mount(8) async description

[Daniel Gerzo]

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 at 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!

> - Giorgos

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 Daniel                            mailto:danger at rulez.sk