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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.rst index bafebf79da4b..b2fa49a5608a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.rst @@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ less sharing than average you'll need a larger-than-average metadata device. As a guide, we suggest you calculate the number of bytes to use in the metadata device as 48 * $data_dev_size / $data_block_size but round it up -to 2MB if the answer is smaller. If you're creating large numbers of +to 2MiB if the answer is smaller. If you're creating large numbers of snapshots which are recording large amounts of change, you may find you need to increase this. -The largest size supported is 16GB: If the device is larger, +The largest size supported is 16GiB: If the device is larger, a warning will be issued and the excess space will not be used. Reloading a pool table @@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ Using an existing pool device $data_block_size gives the smallest unit of disk space that can be allocated at a time expressed in units of 512-byte sectors. -$data_block_size must be between 128 (64KB) and 2097152 (1GB) and a -multiple of 128 (64KB). $data_block_size cannot be changed after the +$data_block_size must be between 128 (64KiB) and 2097152 (1GiB) and a +multiple of 128 (64KiB). $data_block_size cannot be changed after the thin-pool is created. People primarily interested in thin provisioning -may want to use a value such as 1024 (512KB). People doing lots of -snapshotting may want a smaller value such as 128 (64KB). If you are +may want to use a value such as 1024 (512KiB). People doing lots of +snapshotting may want a smaller value such as 128 (64KiB). If you are not zeroing newly-allocated data, a larger $data_block_size in the -region of 256000 (128MB) is suggested. +region of 262144 (128MiB) is suggested. $low_water_mark is expressed in blocks of size $data_block_size. If free space on the data device drops below this level then a dm event @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ i) Constructor error_if_no_space: Error IOs, instead of queueing, if no space. - Data block size must be between 64KB (128 sectors) and 1GB + Data block size must be between 64KiB (128 sectors) and 1GiB (2097152 sectors) inclusive. |