mount(8) async description

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Giorgos,

Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 7:13:19 AM, you wrote:

> 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?
>  

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.

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Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger at rulez.sk