From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Seth Forshee <sforshee@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: filesystems: correct possessive "its"
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 18:22:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab1a33e5-01b9-79d4-662e-44c6e0e74113@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yw6Hp8l/7p3wbiGq@mit.edu>
On 8/30/22 14:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:01:33PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 04:54:29PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> compress_log_size=%u Support configuring compress cluster size, the size will
>>> - be 4KB * (1 << %u), 16KB is minimum size, also it's
>>> + be 4KB * (1 << %u), 16KB is minimum size, also its
>>> default size.
>>
>> That one doesn't look like possesive to me - more like "default size is 16KB and
>> values below that are not allowed"...
I have to disagree about the possessive part...
> That being said, it could also be rewritten to be easier to
> understand. e.g., "The default and minimum size is 16kb."
but sure, it can be rewritten.
thanks.
--
~Randy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-31 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-29 23:54 [PATCH] Documentation: filesystems: correct possessive "its" Randy Dunlap
2022-08-30 0:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-08-30 7:50 ` Christian Brauner
2022-08-30 18:12 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2022-08-30 21:01 ` Al Viro
2022-08-30 21:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-08-31 1:22 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
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