From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 10/28] qemu-nbd: Minor texi updates
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:03:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1454950999-64128-11-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454950999-64128-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
- Change some spacing.
- Add disconnect usage to synopsis.
- Highlight the command and its options in the synopsis.
- Fix up the grammar in the description.
- Move filename variable description out of the option table.
- Add a description of the dev variable.
- Remove duplicate entry for --format.
- Reword --discard documentation.
- Add --detect-zeroes documentation.
- Add reference to qemu man page to see also section.
Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Message-Id: <1451979212-25479-3-git-send-email-sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
qemu-nbd.texi | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qemu-nbd.texi b/qemu-nbd.texi
index 26cc985..5331d69 100644
--- a/qemu-nbd.texi
+++ b/qemu-nbd.texi
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
@example
@c man begin SYNOPSIS
-usage: qemu-nbd [OPTION]... @var{filename}
+@command{qemu-nbd} [OPTION]... @var{filename}
+
+@command{qemu-nbd} @option{-d} @var{dev}
@c man end
@end example
@c man begin DESCRIPTION
-Export QEMU disk image using NBD protocol.
+Export a QEMU disk image using the NBD protocol.
@c man end
@c man begin OPTIONS
+@var{filename} is a disk image filename.
+
+@var{dev} is an NBD device.
+
@table @option
-@item @var{filename}
-is a disk image filename
@item -p, --port=@var{port}
port to listen on (default @samp{10809})
@item -o, --offset=@var{offset}
@@ -22,8 +26,9 @@ offset into the image
interface to bind to (default @samp{0.0.0.0})
@item -k, --socket=@var{path}
Use a unix socket with path @var{path}
-@item -f, --format=@var{format}
-Set image format as @var{format}
+@item -f, --format=@var{fmt}
+force the use of the block driver for format @var{fmt} instead of
+auto-detecting
@item -r, --read-only
export read-only
@item -P, --partition=@var{num}
@@ -44,17 +49,22 @@ the emulator's @code{-drive cache=...} option for allowed values.
choose asynchronous I/O mode between @samp{threads} (the default)
and @samp{native} (Linux only).
@item --discard=@var{discard}
-toggles whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
-requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. The default is no
-(@samp{--discard=ignore}).
+controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
+requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. @var{discard} is one of
+@samp{ignore} (or @samp{off}), @samp{unmap} (or @samp{on}). The default is
+@samp{ignore}.
+@item --detect-zeroes=@var{detect-zeroes}
+enables the automatic conversion of plain zero writes by the OS to
+driver-specific optimized zero write commands. @var{detect-zeroes} is one of
+@samp{off}, @samp{on} or @samp{unmap}. @samp{unmap}
+converts a zero write to an unmap operation and can only be used if
+@var{discard} is set to @samp{unmap}. The default is @samp{off}.
@item -c, --connect=@var{dev}
connect @var{filename} to NBD device @var{dev}
@item -d, --disconnect
disconnect the specified device
@item -e, --shared=@var{num}
device can be shared by @var{num} clients (default @samp{1})
-@item -f, --format=@var{fmt}
-force block driver for format @var{fmt} instead of auto-detecting
@item -t, --persistent
don't exit on the last connection
@item -v, --verbose
@@ -79,7 +89,7 @@ warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
@c man end
@c man begin SEEALSO
-qemu-img(1)
+qemu(1), qemu-img(1)
@c man end
@end ignore
--
1.8.3.1
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 17:02 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/28] Misc changes for 2016-02-08 Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 01/28] memory: add early bail out from cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_range Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/28] memory: RCU ram_list.dirty_memory[] for safe RAM hotplug Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/28] qemu-char: Keep pty slave file descriptor open until the master is closed Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/28] configure: sanity check the glib library that pkg-config finds Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 05/28] include/qemu/atomic.h: default to __atomic functions Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 06/28] scsi: push WWN fields up to SCSIDevice Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 07/28] scsi-generic: grab device and port SAS addresses from backend Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/28] hw: Add support for LSI SAS1068 (mptsas) device Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/28] qemu-nbd: Fix unintended texi verbatim formatting Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 11/28] qemu-nbd: Fix texi sentence capitalisation Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 12/28] scripts/kvm/kvm_stat: Fix tracefs access checking Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 13/28] nbd: avoid unaligned uint64_t store Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 14/28] kvm-all: trace: strerror fixup Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 15/28] char: fix repeated registration of tcp chardev I/O handlers Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 16/28] target-i386: Create gen_lea_v_seg Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 17/28] target-i386: Introduce mo_stacksize Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 18/28] target-i386: Use gen_lea_v_seg in gen_lea_modrm Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/28] target-i386: Use gen_lea_v_seg in stack subroutines Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 20/28] target-i386: Access segs via TCG registers Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/28] target-i386: Use gen_lea_v_seg in pusha/popa Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 22/28] target-i386: Rewrite gen_enter inline Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 23/28] target-i386: Rewrite leave Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 24/28] target-i386: Tidy gen_add_A0_im Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/28] target-i386: Deconstruct the cpu_T array Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 26/28] ipmi: do not take/drop iothread lock Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 27/28] ipmi_bmc_sim: Fix off by one in check Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 28/28] ipmi_bmc_sim: Add break to correct watchdog NMI check Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-09 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/28] Misc changes for 2016-02-08 Peter Maydell
2016-02-09 11:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
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