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authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>2012-03-28 18:41:29 +0100
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2012-03-28 18:41:29 +0100
commit67e2e2b281812b5caf4923a38aadc6b89e34f064 (patch)
treec04255840de5e70a0aa2880d1f1c8bfe1b2e7817 /Documentation/device-mapper
parent104655fd4dcebd50068ef30253a001da72e3a081 (diff)
dm thin: add pool target flags to control discard
Add dm thin target arguments to control discard support. ignore_discard: Disables discard support no_discard_passdown: Don't pass discards down to the underlying data device, but just remove the mapping within the thin provisioning target. 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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
index 310c1201d621..3370bc4d7b98 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
@@ -223,7 +223,13 @@ i) Constructor
<low water mark (blocks)> [<number of feature args> [<arg>]*]
Optional feature arguments:
- - 'skip_block_zeroing': skips the zeroing of newly-provisioned blocks.
+
+ skip_block_zeroing: Skip the zeroing of newly-provisioned blocks.
+
+ ignore_discard: Disable discard support.
+
+ no_discard_passdown: Don't pass discards down to the underlying
+ data device, but just remove the mapping.
Data block size must be between 64KB (128 sectors) and 1GB
(2097152 sectors) inclusive.