From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] xfs_io: fix up typos in manpage
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:43:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e72196ec-314e-5ba6-aeb9-4cf637f4c95e@redhat.com> (raw)
We go in reverse direction, not reserve direction.
We go in forward direction, not forwards direction.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_io.8 b/man/man8/xfs_io.8
index caf3f15..1103dc4 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_io.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_io.8
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@ dump the contents of the buffer after reading,
by default only the count of bytes actually read is dumped.
.TP
.B \-F
-read the buffers in a forwards sequential direction.
+read the buffers in a forward sequential direction.
.TP
.B \-B
-read the buffers in a reserve sequential direction.
+read the buffers in a reverse sequential direction.
.TP
.B \-R
read the buffers in the give range in a random order.
@@ -305,10 +305,10 @@ is used when the data to write is not coming from a file.
The default buffer fill pattern value is 0xcdcdcdcd.
.TP
.B \-F
-write the buffers in a forwards sequential direction.
+write the buffers in a forward sequential direction.
.TP
.B \-B
-write the buffers in a reserve sequential direction.
+write the buffers in a reverse sequential direction.
.TP
.B \-R
write the buffers in the give range in a random order.
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2020-11-14 15:43 Eric Sandeen [this message]
2020-11-14 17:57 ` [PATCH] xfs_io: fix up typos in manpage Darrick J. Wong
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