From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs(5): document current mount options Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 07:13:49 +0100 Message-ID: <9a82d629-6731-7dc2-4b14-4833f7b180ea@gmail.com> References: <20180127095928.6294-1-vapier@gentoo.org> <20180205094352.tphbanrjsf5zp5jn@ws.net.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180205094352.tphbanrjsf5zp5jn-xkT7n84Rsxv/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Karel Zak Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Mike Frysinger , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Karel, On 02/05/2018 10:43 AM, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 10:03:28AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 01/27/2018 10:59 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> Some of this content is moved from the mount(8) man page. >>> Style was based on proc(5) sections. >> >> Thanks. I've applied this. I also added some further details for the >> 'mpol' and 'huge' options, largely drawn from kernel Documentation >> files. Could you take a quick look at that new content? >> >> Is there any other text for mount(8) that should be imported to >> tmpfs(5)? > > It would be nice to completely remove filesystem specific stuff from > mount(8). It's already done for filesystems with active community > (like extN, XFS, etc), but the rest... ;-) > > And another idea... what about to add a generic filesystem(5) (or > section 7) man page to explain why we have filesystems, relation with > mkfs programs, block devices, mount(8) ? Well there is already this: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/filesystems.5.html Obviously, more pieces could be added to it though. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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