[PATCH v2] mkfs: add missing noalign suboption information

Carlos Maiolino cmaiolino at redhat.com
Wed Jul 10 10:14:40 CDT 2013


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

Changelog:

	V2:
	   -rephase noalign data-section option
	   -add noalign realtime device option

Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino at redhat.com>
---
 man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
index 04c19b4..61122f0 100644
--- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ will automatically query the logical volume for appropriate
 and
 .B swidth
 values.
+.TP
+.BI noalign
+This option disables automatic geometry detection and creates the filesystem
+without stripe geometry alignment even if the underlying storage device provides
+this information.
 .RE
 .TP
 .B \-f
@@ -695,6 +700,10 @@ This is used to specify the size of the real-time section.
 This suboption is only needed if the real-time section of the
 filesystem should occupy less space than the size of the partition
 or logical volume containing the section.
+.TP
+.BI noalign
+This option disables stripe size detection, enforcing a realtime device with no
+stripe geometry.
 .RE
 .TP
 .BI \-s " sector_size"
-- 
1.8.1.4



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