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authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>2012-03-28 19:41:24 +0200
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2012-03-28 19:41:24 +0200
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dm thin: correct comments
Remove documentation for unimplemented 'trim' message. I'd planned a 'trim' target message for shrinking thin devices, but this is better handled via the discard ioctl. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Deletes a thin device. Irreversible.
- trim <dev id> <new size in sectors>
-
- Delete mappings from the end of a thin device. Irreversible.
- You might want to use this if you're reducing the size of
- your thinly-provisioned device. In many cases, due to the
- sharing of blocks between devices, it is not possible to
- determine in advance how much space 'trim' will release. (In
- future a userspace tool might be able to perform this
- calculation.)
-
set_transaction_id <current id> <new id>
Userland volume managers, such as LVM, need a way to