From: Marko Hauptvogel <marko.hauptvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Added the optional K suffix for completeness, as it is allowed by util.c's parse_size(char*). Signed-off-by: Marko Hauptvogel <marko.hauptvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mdadm.8.in | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in index 50be1aa..80b0826 100644 --- a/mdadm.8.in +++ b/mdadm.8.in @@ -467,8 +467,8 @@ If this is not specified size, though if there is a variance among the drives of greater than 1%, a warning is issued. -A suffix of 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Megabytes or -Gigabytes respectively. +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kibibytes, Mebibytes or +Gibibytes respectively. Sometimes a replacement drive can be a little smaller than the original drives though this should be minimised by IDEMA standards. @@ -534,8 +534,8 @@ problems the array can be made bigger again with no loss with another .B "\-\-grow \-\-array\-size=" command. -A suffix of 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Megabytes or -Gigabytes respectively. +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kibibytes, Mebibytes or +Gibibytes respectively. A value of .B max restores the apparent size of the array to be whatever the real @@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ This is only meaningful for RAID0, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID10. RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID10 require the chunk size to be a power of 2. In any case it must be a multiple of 4KB. -A suffix of 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Megabytes or -Gigabytes respectively. +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kibibytes, Mebibytes or +Gibibytes respectively. .TP .BR \-\-rounding= @@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ beneficial. This can be suppressed with .TP .BR \-\-bitmap\-chunk= Set the chunksize of the bitmap. Each bit corresponds to that many -Kilobytes of storage. +Kibibytes of storage. When using a file based bitmap, the default is to use the smallest size that is at-least 4 and requires no more than 2^21 chunks. When using an @@ -737,8 +737,8 @@ When using an bitmap, the chunksize defaults to 64Meg, or larger if necessary to fit the bitmap into the available space. -A suffix of 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Megabytes or -Gigabytes respectively. +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kibibytes, Mebibytes or +Gibibytes respectively. .TP .BR \-W ", " \-\-write\-mostly @@ -808,7 +808,8 @@ an array which was originally created using a different version of which computed a different offset. Setting the offset explicitly over-rides the default. The value given -is in Kilobytes unless an 'M' or 'G' suffix is given. +is in Kibibytes unless a suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' is given to indicate +Kibibytes, Mebibytes or Gibibytes respectively. Since Linux 3.4, .B \-\-data\-offset -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
