From c1084561bb85da3630540ebe951749a8cd8fc714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Brassow Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 12:32:07 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt index 4f9dd3cecc11..be4419a30781 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt +++ 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 ] Throttle RAID initialization [max_write_behind ] See '-write-behind=' (man mdadm) [stripe_cache ] Stripe cache size (higher RAIDs only) + [region_size ] + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3