Re: mount(8) manpage and filesystem-specific options

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently the mount(8) manpages which is contained inside util-linux
> has a list of mount options for various filesystem.  Now the filesystems
> are in the kernel tree and can change options without affecting the
> mount binary, and of course do so frequently.  This means these options
> are frequently out of date.  All these options also make the manpage
> quite large and harder to read.  What do peope think about adding a
> (section 4?) manpage for every common filesystem in the man-pages
> repository instead which people seems to help updating nowdays when
> doing user ABI changes, and linking from the mount manpage to it?

Sounds okay to me.

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