diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2
index 9b747741a..c20e34e42 100644
--- a/man2/fsync.2
+++ b/man2/fsync.2
@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@
 .\" Modified 18 Apr 2001 by Andi Kleen
 .\"   Fix description to describe what it really does; add a few caveats.
 .\" 2006-04-28, mtk, substantial rewrite of various parts.
+.\" 2012-02-27 Various changes by Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
 .\"
-.TH FSYNC 2 2008-11-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FSYNC 2 2012-02-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fsync, fdatasync \- synchronize a file's in-core state with storage device
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -65,8 +66,8 @@ file referred to by the file descriptor
 .I fd
 to the disk device (or other permanent storage device) so that all
 changed information can be retrieved even after the system crashed or
-was rebooted.  This includes writing through or flushing a disk cache
-if present.
+was rebooted.
+This includes writing through or flushing a disk cache if present.
 The call blocks until the device reports that the transfer has completed.
 It also flushes metadata information associated with the file (see
 .BR stat (2)).
@@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ and so has no performance advantage.
 The
 .BR fsync ()
 implementations in older kernels and lesser used filesystems
-does not know how to flush disk caches.  In these cases disk caches need to
-be disabled using
+does not know how to flush disk caches.
+In these cases disk caches need to be disabled using
 .BR hdparm (8)
 or
 .BR sdparm (8)