From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:43196 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754904AbeASCgj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:36:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:36:37 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: moving filesystem mount options from util-linux to man-pages Message-ID: <20180119023637.GI7217@vapier> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A" Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline the mount(8) man page covers not only the mount command, but also the various file system options that come from the kernel. it seems like the communities have settled on the man-pages project for holding all the userland-facing documentation, it has good practices for tracking features across versions, and updating it is a lot easier/safer (than util-linux) and up-to-date on the web (via man7.org). while looking up some proc/ramfs options, i noticed util-linux was out of date by over 6 years :/. imo, it seems like we should move all kernel-specific documentation out of the util-linux project and into man-pages. obviously all the mount command line options and such should remain. specifically i'm looking at "FILESYSTEM-SPECIFIC MOUNT OPTIONS": http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mount.8.html#FILESYSTEM-SPECIFIC_MOUNT_OPTIONS we probably want to leave "FILESYSTEM-INDEPENDENT MOUNT OPTIONS" in util-linux since those are all parsed by util-linux's mount and turned into the MS_xxx bits. thoughts ? mount(2) doesn't seem like the best place, but these are the fields that go in the "data" string to that syscall. -mike --WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEuQK1JxMl+JKsJRrUQWM7n+g39YEFAlphWbUACgkQQWM7n+g3 9YFoAQ//bwKRBddT8fnAYkZq7DjbbxZQtt3H3VUCoKAoJp8/36MadFWkbL3c9tlJ +Xt74ihPrNfKlFMmiqmJP1XvpMfnwBQJrmhSLdPHidc0WIvvVjgbBtG4fUIF+Co+ hXTahZxyY6vx15mYiMnwoj49xGY0w6CD4o5OiILaktA/6Iy+Kn+jurvvxyrsbKBg WmxRHukqywkOTpn142zadJ1jlOHE1QVzd062aU+hQCq3EmYwEiaob8kWYyp4k1dh GbAXom1ruElwQDwbCdKV0g2wlt1FZxlcQsp5KrmRSrGnsFkn2Uxe1IjMJ3DPqInu M2N01Lom7ZPNQ0zNLhyOeM0Rn6l8dyqN5yBYmZeKJKUk2iHV+A9Ih47XcPVOb9YE GivQfPIW7kNCLZDbMB4xXqhHy/zFKm9n5VPyv7g3YOhj46v6fecZbal+5wnWd697 Jd0KPKcEICVSyJoUBNxM8a2APahdP8EOb5Oth+e1Sc3tO/teaZjj1TdF9jDi1D1Z A4H/Q3da9LJZNETGX/nwWgrI/0EjYX6uyFGz++sPppAlC2+wGpLKMuLAZACM6coo 0hDDDZOEkozwZHkzAdbKrSWPItXzyJgqgsfC427QlbBivoSlb/NJ6wllQ4IH8Y4m JU7rgeRBGxugYfYeG/ZjGCFfn/sIO1bARxFWEKXlnKV0sdDWob8= =gNTl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A--