docs/159897: [patch] improve HAST section of Handbook

[Warren Block]

The following reply was made to PR docs/159897; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
To: Taras Korenko <ds at ukrhub.net>
Cc: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu>, freebsd-doc at freebsd.org,
        freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/159897: [patch] improve HAST section of Handbook
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:57:14 -0600 (MDT)

 On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Taras Korenko wrote:
 
 > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:08:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
 >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
 >>
 >>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Warren Block wrote:
 >>>
 >>>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Warren Block wrote:
 >>>>>
 >>>>>> -	  <para>File system agnostic, thus allowing to use any file
 >>>>>> +	  <para>File system agnostic, thus allowing use of any file
 >>>>>
 >>>>> I think "allowing the use" is better here.
 >>>>
 >>>> "allowing any" might be even better.
 >>>
 >>> I don't think that would be correct usage -- "allowing any file system" to
 >>> do what?
 >>
 >> Allowing any file system versus allowing only file systems made for
 >> HAST.  Looking at it again, the problem is the word "allowing".  What
 >> this is really saying is: "File system agnostic, compatible with any
 >> file system supported by &os;."
 >>
 >
 > File system agnostic, thus allowing laying out any file
 > system supported by &os;.
 
 Another day and now "agnostic" looks wrong.  IMO, the meaning is not 
 "HAST is unsure that file systems exist", but that it operates at a 
 block level and is not even aware of file systems.  More simply, it 
 doesn't care which file system is used.
 
 So my latest proposal for the simplest rewording is
 
 "Works with any file system supported by FreeBSD."