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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2022-08-14 02:00:00 +0200
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doc: Note the pitfalls of man 8 mount.
* doc/guix.texi (File Systems): Warn against flags presented as options.
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@@ -16430,8 +16430,11 @@ Manual}, for more information on these flags.
@item @code{options} (default: @code{#f})
This is either @code{#f}, or a string denoting mount options passed to
the file system driver. @xref{Mount-Unmount-Remount,,, libc, The GNU C
-Library Reference Manual}, for details and run @command{man 8 mount} for
-options for various file systems.
+Library Reference Manual}, for details.
+
+Run @command{man 8 mount} for options for various file systems, but
+beware that what it lists as file-system-independent ``mount options'' are
+in fact flags, and belong in the @code{flags} field described above.
The @code{file-system-options->alist} and @code{alist->file-system-options}
procedures from @code{(gnu system file-systems)} can be used to convert