Where would a nullfs man page go?

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 06:51:48AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> Section 5 is supposed to be about file formats, but
> manual pages for devfs, ext2fs, fdescfs, linprocfs,
> linsysfs, procfs, msdosfs, mqueuefs and reiserfs are
> present in it.  Most of these manual pages appear
> to fit elsewhere since they do not talk about file format,
> perhaps section 4 (drivers & kernel modules).  ffs is
> documented in section 7 (miscellaneous).  pseudofs resides
> in section 9.  This should also be in section 4, like
> miibus(4).


Now that you mention it, I think that
devfs, ext2fs, fdescfs, linprocfs, linsysfs, procfs, msdosfs,
mqueuefs, and reiserfs all belong in section 4 (drivers & kernel modules).

None of those man pages talk about the actual file format
of any of those filesystems.  I think a nullfs man page belongs in section 4.

I think ffs(7) belongs in section 4 as well, since more or less
it talks about the driver used for the FFS/UFS filesystem.

I am to blame for putting devfs and ext2fs in section 5, because
I just followed the convention that previous people followed.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc at crodrigues.org