From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41787 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933705Ab3CZNXd (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:23:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:23:29 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Roman Mamedov , linux-btrfs Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: document mount options in Documentation/fs/btrfs.txt Message-ID: <20130326132329.GC801@x2.net.home> References: <514DEB06.7000606@redhat.com> <20130324003321.7f119e91@natsu> <514DF850.5080906@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <514DF850.5080906@redhat.com> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:45:36PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > The mount manpage is maintained in the util-linux pkg, > but it's not kernel-version specific, and the util-linux > maintainer does not have specific knowledge of all filesytem > options. Absolutely true. The util-linux maintainer is not happy that we don't have filesystem specific man pages for many filesystems. The goal is to have in mount.8 only links to another man pages, for example see smart NFS guys: Mount options for nfs and nfs4: See the options section of the nfs(5) man page (nfs-utils package must be installed). > I think kernel docs are the right place for the developers > to first document these things Definitely. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com