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authorMilan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>2020-04-08 23:40:08 +0200
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2020-04-14 13:54:07 -0400
commit0a2bd55c194ae8322638aceb4cc276cbf8b2f8b9 (patch)
treee46f44b6711103723b93bd55f12079fbc5548124
parent8267d8fb4819afa76b2a54dca48efdda6f0b1910 (diff)
dm integrity: document allow_discard option
Add decription of the allow_discard option added in commit 84597a44a9d86ac949900441cea7da0af0f2f473. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
index c00f9f11e3f3..8439d2ae689b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
@@ -182,12 +182,15 @@ fix_padding
space-efficient. If this option is not present, large padding is
used - that is for compatibility with older kernels.
-
-The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time can
-be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive table and swap the
-tables with suspend and resume). The other arguments should not be changed
-when reloading the target because the layout of disk data depend on them
-and the reloaded target would be non-functional.
+allow_discards
+ Allow block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) for the integrity device.
+ Discards are only allowed to devices using internal hash.
+
+The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time and
+allow_discards can be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive
+table and swap the tables with suspend and resume). The other arguments
+should not be changed when reloading the target because the layout of disk
+data depend on them and the reloaded target would be non-functional.
The layout of the formatted block device: