[PATCH] mkfs: add missing noalign suboption information

Carlos Maiolino cmaiolino at redhat.com
Mon Jul 8 18:45:10 CDT 2013


Adds to the mkfs man page, information about noalign mkfs option which is
missing until now.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino at redhat.com>
---
 man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
index 04c19b4..2435814 100644
--- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
@@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ will automatically query the logical volume for appropriate
 and
 .B swidth
 values.
+.TP
+.BI noalign
+This option is used to bypass data alignment configuration. In rare
+circunstances, data alignment might decrease performance, for such cases,
+use this option to avoid data alignment, this will set stripe unit and
+stripe width to 0.
 .RE
 .TP
 .B \-f
-- 
1.8.1.4



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