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| author | Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> | 2012-03-28 18:41:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> | 2012-03-28 18:41:24 +0100 |
| commit | fe878f34df89ad4af758f40bbec829807dc93a00 (patch) | |
| tree | eaa377c640fd595391491725ab477f29062374b1 | |
| parent | 035220b33d6865d81d5433600def53373cca7127 (diff) | |
dm thin: correct comments
Remove documentation for unimplemented 'trim' message.
I'd planned a 'trim' target message for shrinking thin devices, but
this is better handled via the discard ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt index 1ff044d87ca4..da50347c0053 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt @@ -237,16 +237,6 @@ iii) Messages Deletes a thin device. Irreversible. - trim <dev id> <new size in sectors> - - Delete mappings from the end of a thin device. Irreversible. - You might want to use this if you're reducing the size of - your thinly-provisioned device. In many cases, due to the - sharing of blocks between devices, it is not possible to - determine in advance how much space 'trim' will release. (In - future a userspace tool might be able to perform this - calculation.) - set_transaction_id <current id> <new id> Userland volume managers, such as LVM, need a way to diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c index da2f0217df66..1791134cf477 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ * missed out if the io covers the block. (schedule_copy). * * iv) insert the new mapping into the origin's btree - * (process_prepared_mappings). This act of inserting breaks some + * (process_prepared_mapping). This act of inserting breaks some * sharing of btree nodes between the two devices. Breaking sharing only * effects the btree of that specific device. Btrees for the other * devices that share the block never change. The btree for the origin |