Axel, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.55-1 > > filesystems(5) says: > > When, as is customary, the proc filesystem is mounted on /proc, > you can find in the file /proc/filesystems which filesystems your > kernel currently supports. If you need a currently unsupported > one, insert the corresponding module or recompile the kernel. > > My /proc/filesystems looks like this: > > $ cat /proc/filesystems > nodev sysfs > nodev rootfs > nodev ramfs > nodev bdev > nodev proc > nodev cgroup > nodev cpuset > nodev tmpfs > nodev devtmpfs > nodev debugfs > nodev securityfs > nodev sockfs > nodev pipefs > nodev anon_inodefs > nodev devpts > nodev hugetlbfs > nodev pstore > nodev mqueue > btrfs > ext3 > ext2 > ext4 > fuseblk > nodev fuse > nodev fusectl > nodev binfmt_misc > nodev aufs > $ > > filesystems(5) should mention the "nodev" prefix (and maybe other > potential prefixes) and describe its/their meaning..
One thing that would have helped here is if you could have supplied some text explaining what "nodev" is. (Or, if you don't know, then it would help to explicitly note that in the bug.) I believe the appropriate text would be something like [[ If the work "nodev" appears before a filesystem name, then that filesystem does not require a corresponding device in order to be mounted (i.e., it is a pseudo-filesystem). ]] Look okay to you? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
