From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: mount(8) manpage and filesystem-specific options Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:03:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20081126041558.GA9251@infradead.org> Reply-To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: util-linux-ng-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Christoph Hellwig" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081126041558.GA9251-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Currently the mount(8) manpages which is contained inside util-linux > has a list of mount options for various filesystem. Now the filesystems > are in the kernel tree and can change options without affecting the > mount binary, and of course do so frequently. This means these options > are frequently out of date. All these options also make the manpage > quite large and harder to read. What do peope think about adding a > (section 4?) manpage for every common filesystem in the man-pages > repository instead which people seems to help updating nowdays when > doing user ABI changes, and linking from the mount manpage to it? Sounds okay to me. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html