- syncs are done by a kernel thread, not update(8)

- halting flushes the fs cache to disk, no need to run explicitly
- other minor tweaks (grammar, punctuation, etc.)

ok jmc

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t b/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t
index ff3aff813f1..faacce041aa 100644
--- a/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t
+++ b/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: 2.t,v 1.4 2003/06/02 20:06:15 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: 2.t,v 1.5 2005/02/02 04:36:56 jaredy Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: 2.t,v 1.2 1995/03/18 14:56:08 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1982, 1993
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ and summary information describing the usage of data blocks
 within the cylinder group.
 A fixed number of inodes is allocated for each cylinder group
 when the file system is created.
-The current policy is to allocate one inode for each 2048
+The current policy is to allocate one inode for every 2048
 bytes of disk space;
 this is expected to be far more inodes than will ever be needed.
 .PP
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ The disk information is updated to reflect the in-core information
 when the buffer is required for another use,
 when a
 .I sync (2)
-is done (at 30 second intervals) by
-.I "/etc/update" "(8),"
+is done (which happens automatically at 30 second intervals through
+a kernel thread),
 or by manual operator intervention with the
 .I sync (8)
 command.
@@ -256,9 +256,9 @@ The problem with asynchronous inode updates
 can be avoided by doing all inode deallocations synchronously.
 Consequently,
 inodes and indirect blocks are written to the disk synchronously
-(\fIi.e.\fP the process blocks until the information is
+(i.e. the process blocks until the information is
 really written to disk)
 when they are being deallocated.
-Similarly inodes are kept consistent by synchronously
+Similarly, inodes are kept consistent by synchronously
 deleting, adding, or changing directory entries.
 .ds RH Fixing corrupted file systems
diff --git a/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/3.t b/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/3.t
index be19d3f10cf..e09adcf711b 100644
--- a/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/3.t
+++ b/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/3.t
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: 3.t,v 1.7 2004/11/29 06:20:03 jsg Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: 3.t,v 1.8 2005/02/02 04:36:56 jaredy Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: 3.t,v 1.4 1996/10/11 20:15:49 thorpej Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1982, 1993
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ This happens when proper shutdown
 procedures are not observed,
 physically write-protecting a mounted file system,
 or a mounted file system is taken off-line.
-The most common operator procedural failure is forgetting to
-.I sync
-the system before halting the CPU.
 .PP
 File systems may become further corrupted if proper startup
 procedures are not observed, e.g.,