Re: [PATCH] tmpfs(5): document current mount options

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.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

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