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authorDan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>2012-12-05 18:17:35 -0800
committerDan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>2012-12-05 18:17:35 -0800
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rbd: update manpage for import/export
Signed-off-by: Dan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/rbd.8 b/man/rbd.8
index 446db793e7c..6004244e0ba 100644
--- a/man/rbd.8
+++ b/man/rbd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "RBD" "8" "October 22, 2012" "dev" "Ceph"
+.TH "RBD" "8" "December 05, 2012" "dev" "Ceph"
.SH NAME
rbd \- manage rados block device (RBD) images
.
@@ -179,10 +179,13 @@ Deletes an rbd image (including all data blocks). If the image has
snapshots, this fails and nothing is deleted.
.TP
.B \fBexport\fP [\fIimage\-name\fP] [\fIdest\-path\fP]
-Exports image to dest path.
+Exports image to dest path (use \- for stdout).
.TP
.B \fBimport\fP [\fIpath\fP] [\fIdest\-image\fP]
-Creates a new image and imports its data from path.
+Creates a new image and imports its data from path (use \- for
+stdin). The import operation will try to create sparse rbd images
+if possible. For import from stdin, the sparsification unit is
+the data block size of the destination image (1 << order).
.TP
.B \fBcp\fP [\fIsrc\-image\fP] [\fIdest\-image\fP]
Copies the content of a src\-image into the newly created dest\-image.
@@ -440,6 +443,6 @@ the Ceph documentation at \fI\%http://ceph.com/docs\fP for more information.
\fBceph\fP(8),
\fBrados\fP(8)
.SH COPYRIGHT
-2012, Inktank Storage, Inc.
+2010-2012, Inktank Storage, Inc. and contributors. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA
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