From 4d83891a679116c4bd1fb68926666e9d9dd42cb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zdenek Kabelac Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:53:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make units for chunksize more obvious --- WHATS_NEW | 1 + man/lvcreate.8.in | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/WHATS_NEW b/WHATS_NEW index e6a72dc69..3c4e45ff6 100644 --- a/WHATS_NEW +++ b/WHATS_NEW @@ -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. diff --git a/man/lvcreate.8.in b/man/lvcreate.8.in index 13dffdaec..21f138c8b 100644 --- a/man/lvcreate.8.in +++ b/man/lvcreate.8.in @@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ If clustered locking is enabled, \fB-a\fIey\fR will activate exclusively 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 -- 2.43.5