Hello Thorsten, On 13 December 2016 at 10:43, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware >> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting >> page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora > > Yes.
Thanks for the confirmation. >> > The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it >> > covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem). >> >> Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux. > > Ah, hmm, too bad then. We have them on BSD. (Yes.) > >> And there's certainly precedent for section 5 pages on filesystems. >> For example, among others, we have ext4(5), btrfs(5), and nfs(5). > > But section 5 is for configuration files. You could move them > to section 7 (general concepts), though. I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils, e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came to the same conclusion (or copied each other's idea) that Section 5 was the right place. And in the Linux man-pages we also have filesystems(5) and proc(5), for example. Cheers, Michael