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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-15 05:16:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-15 05:16:42 +0200 |
| commit | 245dec52ca6a78ac7febb5277f5176a5eae861af (patch) | |
| tree | f604b5acee969256a699e7a4f0e9e133a42d08a3 | |
| parent | d71593a99b08b4b5ccef84aac66cb04a608d85fa (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-245dec52ca6a78ac7febb5277f5176a5eae861af.tar.gz | |
open.2, sync_file_range.2, umount.2: Global fix: s/filesystem/file system/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/open.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/sync_file_range.2 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/umount.2 | 4 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index dcf31b8c2e..2fbb6d262b 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ and .B O_RSYNC to the same numerical value as .BR O_SYNC -Most Linux filesystems don't actually implement the POSIX +Most Linux file systems don't actually implement the POSIX .B O_SYNC semantics, which require all metadata updates of a write to be on disk on returning to userspace, but only the diff --git a/man2/sync_file_range.2 b/man2/sync_file_range.2 index cb0fee13dd..afca9c22b4 100644 --- a/man2/sync_file_range.2 +++ b/man2/sync_file_range.2 @@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ Therefore, unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees that the data will be available after a crash. There is no user interface to know if a write is purely an overwrite. -On filesystem using copy-on-write semantics (e.g., +On file systems using copy-on-write semantics (e.g., .IR btrfs ) an overwrite of existing allocated blocks is impossible. When writing into preallocated space, -many filesystems also require calls into the block +many file systems also require calls into the block allocator, which this system call does not sync out to disk. This system call does not flush disk write caches and thus does not provide any data integrity on systems with volatile disk write caches. diff --git a/man2/umount.2 b/man2/umount.2 index 00c40195b3..d65ba194c7 100644 --- a/man2/umount.2 +++ b/man2/umount.2 @@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS -The error values given below result from filesystem type independent +The error values given below result from file-system type independent errors. -Each filesystem type may have its own special errors and its +Each file system type may have its own special errors and its own special behavior. See the kernel source code for details. .TP |