From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22980 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2011 09:53:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 22962 invoked by uid 9737); 21 Oct 2011 09:53:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20111021095317.22960.qmail@sourceware.org> From: zkabelac@sourceware.org To: lvm-devel@redhat.com, lvm2-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: LVM2 ./WHATS_NEW man/lvcreate.8.in Mailing-List: contact lvm2-cvs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: lvm2-cvs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 CVSROOT: /cvs/lvm2 Module name: LVM2 Changes by: zkabelac@sourceware.org 2011-10-21 09:53:16 Modified files: . : WHATS_NEW man : lvcreate.8.in Log message: Make units for chunksize more obvious Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/WHATS_NEW.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.2164&r2=1.2165 http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/lvcreate.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.23&r2=1.24 --- LVM2/WHATS_NEW 2011/10/19 16:49:13 1.2164 +++ LVM2/WHATS_NEW 2011/10/21 09:53:16 1.2165 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ Version 2.02.89 - ================================== + Improve lvcreate man documentation of the chunksize option. Improve man page style for lvcreate. Avoid recursive calls to dmeventd in its LVM plugins. Log dev name now returned to kernel for registering during cmirror CTR. --- LVM2/man/lvcreate.8.in 2011/10/19 16:49:14 1.23 +++ LVM2/man/lvcreate.8.in 2011/10/21 09:53:16 1.24 @@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ on one node and \fB-a\fIly\fR will activate only on the local node. .TP .BR \-c ", " \-\-chunksize " " \fIChunkSize -Power of 2 chunk size for the snapshot logical volume between 4k and 512k. +Power of 2 chunk size in sector units (512b). +For snapshot logical volume the value must be between 8 (4KB) and 1024 (512KB) +and the default value is 8. .TP .BR \-C ", " \-\-contiguous " {" \fIy | \fIn } Sets or resets the contiguous allocation policy for