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From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@linux.dev>, Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>,
	Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com>,
	Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>,
	Jonmichael Hands <jm@chia.net>,
	Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>,
	Martin Oliveira <Martin.Oliveira@eideticom.com>,
	David Sloan <David.Sloan@eideticom.com>,
	Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Subject: [PATCH mdadm v2 2/2] manpage: Add --discard option to manpage
Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2022 17:08:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220908230847.5749-3-logang@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220908230847.5749-1-logang@deltatee.com>

Document the new --discard option in the manpage.

Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
---
 mdadm.8.in | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
index f273622641da..93a0a32dd314 100644
--- a/mdadm.8.in
+++ b/mdadm.8.in
@@ -836,6 +836,21 @@ array is resynced at creation.  From Linux version 3.0,
 .B \-\-assume\-clean
 can be used with that command to avoid the automatic resync.
 
+.TP
+.BR \-\-discard
+When creating an array, send block discard (aka trim or deallocate)
+requests to all the block devices. In most cases this should zero all
+the disks. If any discard fails, or if zeros are not read back from the
+disk, then the operation will be aborted.
+.IP
+If all discards succeed, and there are no missing disks specified,
+then the array should not need to be synchronized after it is created
+(as all disks are zero). The operation will thus proceed as if
+.B \-\-assume\-clean
+was specified.
+.IP
+This is only meaningful with --create.
+
 .TP
 .BR \-\-backup\-file=
 This is needed when
-- 
2.30.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08 23:08 [PATCH mdadm v2 0/2] Discard Option for Creating Arrays Logan Gunthorpe
2022-09-08 23:08 ` [PATCH mdadm v2 1/2] mdadm: Add --discard option for Create Logan Gunthorpe
2022-09-09  9:57   ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2022-09-09 11:54     ` Roman Mamedov
     [not found]       ` <CABdXBANrJNWjq4237k9DPRoxLVmiAUoKMZxaaLUrcMHsODwvmA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-09 15:31         ` Roman Mamedov
2022-09-12 17:43       ` Martin K. Petersen
2022-09-09 15:47     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2022-09-13  7:35       ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2022-09-13 15:43         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2022-09-14 12:01           ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2022-09-14 16:29             ` Logan Gunthorpe
2022-09-14 17:39               ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2022-09-19  8:41   ` Xiao Ni
2022-09-21 18:45     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2022-09-08 23:08 ` Logan Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-09-12 17:40 ` [PATCH mdadm v2 0/2] Discard Option for Creating Arrays Martin K. Petersen
     [not found]   ` <CABdXBAP0LeQMmhSLUMZ_TmnSp5xmZ4xJBkNa7HUm7094m_x9xA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-13  3:47     ` Martin K. Petersen
2022-09-13 15:38   ` Logan Gunthorpe

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