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authorZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>2012-02-02 14:37:51 +0100
committerZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>2012-10-10 21:21:00 +0200
commitca09c9ab4c082c1b3291748630a0133fb5f8f780 (patch)
treed381d41998fdccf2471cca6c1befe4ff37a7424a /man
parentb296e30f98dc0bab12e8a184f0a93b69cbe291f8 (diff)
downloadlvm2-ca09c9ab4c082c1b3291748630a0133fb5f8f780.tar.gz
thin: support non power of 2 chunk size
Support thin chunk size with multiple of 64KiB if user has thin-pool target version at least 1.2.
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@@ -129,10 +129,13 @@ activate only on the local node.
Gives the size of chunk for snapshot and thin pool logical volumes.
For snapshots the value must be power of 2 between 4KiB and 512KiB
and the default value is 4.
-For thin pools the value must be power of 2 between 64KiB and
+For thin pools the value must be between 64KiB and
1048576KiB and the default value starts with 64 and scales
up to fit the pool metadata size within 128MB,
if the poolmetadata size is not specified.
+Older dm thin pool target version (<1.2) requires the value to be power of 2.
+The newer version requires to be the multiple of 64KiB, however discard is
+not supported for non power of 2 values.
Default unit is in kilobytes.
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