On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:45:17PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 09:21:31PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:22:25PM -0700, Chris Palmer wrote: > > > I recently set up a CRYPTO volume with softraid(4) and enjoyed it. Thanks! > > > > > > Here are some hopefully-clarifying diffs to the man pages. > > > > > > > feedback from softraid people please... > > Inline where I don't agree. > > > > > > > > > --- bioctl.8.orig Sat Sep 11 19:55:27 2010 > > > +++ bioctl.8 Sun Sep 12 12:17:30 2010 > > > @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ > > > promote it to being a > > > .Dq Hot Spare . > > > .It Fl h > > > -Where necessary, produce "human-readable" output. > > > +Where necessary, produce ``human-readable'' output. > > > > er, ... > > > > > Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, > > > Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte in order to reduce the number of > > > digits to four or less. > > > @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ > > > RAID 4 and RAID 5 require at least three devices, > > > and the CRYPTO discipline requires exactly one. > > > .It Fl d > > > -Delete volume specified by device. > > > +Detach volume specified by device. > > > > softraid people? > > Nope; technically it is a delete. Detaching is a side-effect. >
Delete is a strong word. Does it mean that the RAID meta information is deleted (and with it all data on the softraid volume) or does it just mean that the softraid volume is removed from the kernel? IMO the use of delete here is not a good choice. -- :wq Claudio
