docs/150490: newfs man page clarification

[Glen Barber]

On 9/13/10 10:04 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:50:07 am Eitan Adler wrote:
>> The following reply was made to PR docs/150490; it has been noted by GNATS.
>>
>> From: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
>> To: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
>> Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: docs/150490: newfs man page clarification
>> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:20:06 -0400
>>
>>  > [snip]
>>  >> -NB: Erasing may take as long time as writing every sector on the disk.
>>  >> +NB: Erasing may take as long time as it writes to every sector on the d=
>>  isk.
>>  >
>>  > Uhm, I believe the original wording is correct. =C2=A0The "as" in "as wri=
>>  ting" here
>>  > does not stand for "because"; it's part of a "as ... as ..." construction
>>  > which... oh, well, all right :) =C2=A0I guess it might be a bit clearer t=
>>  o say
>>  > something like:
>>  >
>>  > =C2=A0Erasing may take time as long as writing every sector on the disk.
>>  >
>>  > ...or something like that, though it's not much clearer than the original=
>>   :)
>>  > The original author's point here is that the time that erasing takes is
>>  > as long (a time) as (the time it takes) writing every sector on the disk.
>>  >
>>  > Or something like that :)
>>  >
>>  
>>  Erasing the disk will take as much time as it takes to write to every
>>  sector on the disk.
>>  Erasing may take a long time as it writes to every sector on the disk.
>>  Erasing will take as much time as writing every sector to disk takes.
>>  
>>  Take your pick ;-)
>>  
>>  If it matters I'm a native speaker and the original sentence does not
>>  make sense to me as is.
> 
> Agreed, all three of those options are better than the original.  I would
> probably vote for 2).
> 

Good, that's the one I picked too. :)

Regards,

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Glen Barber