mount(8) async description

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-09-04 22:51, Daniel Gerzo <danger at 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 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!

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?
 
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