svn commit: r48349 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics

Jason Helfman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Author: jgh
Date: Sun Mar  6 20:19:49 2016
New Revision: 48349
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48349

Log:
  - whitespace change only (translators may igore)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics/chapter.xml	Sun Mar  6 18:08:39 2016	(r48348)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics/chapter.xml	Sun Mar  6 20:19:49 2016	(r48349)
@@ -387,22 +387,20 @@ Closing device "echo".</screen>
       operations, depriving the application of the ability to know the
       exact disk contents at any one instant in time.</para>
 
-    <para>
-      This makes predictable and reliable crash recovery of on-disk
-      data structures (filesystems, databases etc.) impossible.  Since
-      writes may be delayed, there is no way the kernel can report to
-      the application which particular write operation encountered a
-      write error, this further compounds the consistency
-      problem.</para>
+    <para>This makes predictable and reliable crash recovery of
+      on-disk data structures (filesystems, databases etc.)
+      impossible.  Since writes may be delayed, there is no way
+      the kernel can report to the application which particular
+      write operation encountered a write error, this further
+      compounds the consistency problem.</para>
 
-    <para>
-      For this reason, no serious applications rely on block devices,
-      and in fact, almost all applications which access disks directly
-      take great pains to specify that character (or
-      <quote>raw</quote>) devices should always be used.  Because the
-      implementation of the aliasing of each disk (partition) to two
-      devices with different semantics significantly complicated the
-      relevant kernel code &os; dropped support for cached disk
+    <para>For this reason, no serious applications rely on block
+      devices, and in fact, almost all applications which access
+      disks directly take great pains to specify that character
+      (or <quote>raw</quote>) devices should always be used.  Because
+      the implementation of the aliasing of each disk (partition) to
+      two devices with different semantics significantly complicated
+      the relevant kernel code &os; dropped support for cached disk
       devices as part of the modernization of the disk I/O
       infrastructure.</para>
   </sect1>
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