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authorJonathan Brassow2011-08-02 12:32:07 +0100
committerAlasdair G Kergon2011-08-02 12:32:07 +0100
commitc1084561bb85da3630540ebe951749a8cd8fc714 (patch)
treeecdefcf24dd88f4c19a873fa5d26039a0edf03a7 /Documentation/device-mapper
parentc0a2fa1ef1057a1e9450d6f055f1cde2ad4f85a2 (diff)
dm raid: add region_size parameter
Allow the user to specify the region_size. Ensures that the supplied value meets md's constraints, viz. the number of regions does not exceed 2^21. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ The target is named "raid" and it accepts the following parameters:
[max_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>] Throttle RAID initialization
[max_write_behind <sectors>] See '-write-behind=' (man mdadm)
[stripe_cache <sectors>] Stripe cache size (higher RAIDs only)
+ [region_size <sectors>]
+ The region_size multiplied by the number of regions is the
+ logical size of the array. The bitmap records the device
+ synchronisation state for each region.
<#raid_devs>: The number of devices composing the array.
Each device consists of two entries. The first is the device