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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2012-10-04 16:34:21 +1000 |
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| committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2012-10-04 16:34:21 +1000 |
| commit | 40c9a66a5c1a89d621daa2184888e66952b06a71 (patch) | |
| tree | bf7dae47d213cc7629f112880a9c18cb509d8415 /ReadMe.c | |
| parent | 83cd1e97cbc0c4749561b72864dbaaed3a014123 (diff) | |
Add --data-offset flag for Create and Grow
This can be used to over-ride the automatic assignment of
data offset.
For --create, it is useful to re-create old arrays where different
defaults applied.
For --grow it may be able to force a reshape in the reverse direction.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'ReadMe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | ReadMe.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct option long_options[] = { {"re-add", 0, 0, ReAdd}, {"homehost", 1, 0, HomeHost}, {"symlinks", 1, 0, Symlinks}, + {"data-offset",1, 0, DataOffset}, /* For assemble */ {"uuid", 1, 0, 'u'}, @@ -349,6 +350,8 @@ char Help_create[] = " --raid-devices= -n : number of active devices in array\n" " --spare-devices= -x: number of spare (eXtra) devices in initial array\n" " --size= -z : Size (in K) of each drive in RAID1/4/5/6/10 - optional\n" +" --data-offset= : Space to leave between start of device and start\n" +" : of array data.\n" " --force -f : Honour devices as listed on command line. Don't\n" " : insert a missing drive for RAID5.\n" " --run -R : insist of running the array even if not all\n" @@ -545,6 +548,7 @@ char Help_grow[] = " : when changing parameters other than raid-devices\n" " --array-size= -Z : Change visible size of array. This does not change\n" " : any data on the device, and is not stable across restarts.\n" +" --data-offset= : Location on device to move start of data to.\n" ; char Help_incr[] = |