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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 07ec492cceee..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -dm-stripe -========= - -Device-Mapper's "striped" target is used to create a striped (i.e. RAID-0) -device across one or more underlying devices. Data is written in "chunks", -with consecutive chunks rotating among the underlying devices. This can -potentially provide improved I/O throughput by utilizing several physical -devices in parallel. - -Parameters: <num devs> <chunk size> [<dev path> <offset>]+ - <num devs>: Number of underlying devices. - <chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be at least as - large as the system's PAGE_SIZE. - <dev path>: Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a - "major:minor" device-number. - <offset>: Starting sector within the device. - -One or more underlying devices can be specified. The striped device size must -be a multiple of the chunk size multiplied by the number of underlying devices. - - -Example scripts -=============== - -[[ -#!/usr/bin/perl -w -# Create a striped device across any number of underlying devices. The device -# will be called "stripe_dev" and have a chunk-size of 128k. - -my $chunk_size = 128 * 2; -my $dev_name = "stripe_dev"; -my $num_devs = @ARGV; -my @devs = @ARGV; -my ($min_dev_size, $stripe_dev_size, $i); - -if (!$num_devs) { - die("Specify at least one device\n"); -} - -$min_dev_size = `blockdev --getsz $devs[0]`; -for ($i = 1; $i < $num_devs; $i++) { - my $this_size = `blockdev --getsz $devs[$i]`; - $min_dev_size = ($min_dev_size < $this_size) ? - $min_dev_size : $this_size; -} - -$stripe_dev_size = $min_dev_size * $num_devs; -$stripe_dev_size -= $stripe_dev_size % ($chunk_size * $num_devs); - -$table = "0 $stripe_dev_size striped $num_devs $chunk_size"; -for ($i = 0; $i < $num_devs; $i++) { - $table .= " $devs[$i] 0"; -} - -`echo $table | dmsetup create $dev_name`; -]] - |