Re: [PATCH] mount: add btrfs to mount.8

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On 6/6/14, 5:03 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 11:44:28AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>>  I personally have no problem to maintain information about arbitrary
>>  FS in mount.8, the problem are updates. Unfortunately, kernel FS developers
>>  don't care about the man page at all and it's very often not up to date.
> 
>  Hmm.. another possible way would be to create a script for util-linux
>  that will analyze kernel Documentation/filesystems/<fsname>.txt and
>  report changes that is necessary to make to mount.8. It should be
>  relative simple with git. I'll try it..

I like that idea.  Maybe <fsname.txt> will need a defined format, though,
right?  Maybe asciidoc?

I've still been meaning (in theory) to produce a mount manpage just for xfs.
I'm still willing to do that if the above doesn't pan out.  I just need
to get to it.  I'd be happy to do it for extN as well.

-Eric

>     Karel
> 

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