Marko Hauptvogel <marko.hauptvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 31.03.2016 21:09, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> Marko Hauptvogel <marko.hauptvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> > 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> >> I am not very much in favor of this patch. Any normal sane person still >> refers to megabytes and kilobytes as referring to 1024 base sizes, >> despite the pointless standard trying to mess them up to accommodate the >> harddrive vendors. Nobody normal knows what a kibibyte is. >> >> Jes >> > > I am fine either way, but it should be used consistently throughout > the man page. The mix up was what made me cringe. Works for me! Cheers, Jes > > Greetings > > -------- > > From eaad00be960ff1d60861cba75cc7e5eb07f7e330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Marko Hauptvogel <marko.hauptvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 00:13:44 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] Consistent use of metric prefix in manpage > > 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 | 15 ++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in > index 50be1aa..1a04bd1 100644 > --- a/mdadm.8.in > +++ b/mdadm.8.in > @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ number of spare devices. > > .TP > .BR \-z ", " \-\-size= > -Amount (in Kibibytes) of space to use from each drive in RAID levels 1/4/5/6. > +Amount (in Kilobytes) of space to use from each drive in RAID levels 1/4/5/6. > This must be a multiple of the chunk size, and must leave about 128Kb > of space at the end of the drive for the RAID superblock. > If this is not specified > @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ 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 > +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes or > Gigabytes respectively. > > Sometimes a replacement drive can be a little smaller than the > @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ 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 > +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes or > Gigabytes respectively. > A value of > .B max > @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ amount of available space is. > > .TP > .BR \-c ", " \-\-chunk= > -Specify chunk size of kibibytes. The default when creating an > +Specify chunk size of kilobytes. The default when creating an > array is 512KB. To ensure compatibility with earlier versions, the > default when building an array with no persistent metadata is 64KB. > This is only meaningful for RAID0, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID10. > @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ 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 > +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes or > Gigabytes respectively. > > .TP > @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ 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 > +A suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' can be given to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes or > Gigabytes respectively. > > .TP > @@ -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 Kilobytes unless a suffix of 'K', 'M' or 'G' is used to explicitly > +indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes or Gigabytes respectively. > > Since Linux 3.4, > .B \-\-data\-offset -- 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
