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authorGreg Farnum <greg@inktank.com>2013-02-19 17:48:26 -0800
committerGreg Farnum <greg@inktank.com>2013-02-19 17:48:26 -0800
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man: make the cephfs man page marginally more truthful
Signed-off-by: Greg Farnum <greg@inktank.com>
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-rw-r--r--man/cephfs.812
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/cephfs.8 b/man/cephfs.8
index 9bea58e4c7d..c957830df34 100644
--- a/man/cephfs.8
+++ b/man/cephfs.8
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Set the size of each stripe
.INDENT 0.0
.TP
.B \-c \-\-stripe_count
-Set the number of stripes per object
+Set the number of objects to stripe across
.UNINDENT
.INDENT 0.0
.TP
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ Set the preferred OSD to use as the primary
.UNINDENT
.SH LIMITATIONS
.sp
-When setting layout data, the specified stripe unit and stripe count
-must multiply to the size of an object. Any parameters you don\(aqt set
+When setting layout data, the specified object size must evenly divide
+by the specified stripe unit. Any parameters you don\(aqt set
explicitly are left at the system defaults.
.sp
Obviously setting the layout of a file and a directory means different
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ directory (or any subdirectory). Pre\-existing files do not have their
layouts changed.
.sp
You\(aqll notice that the layout information allows you to specify a
-preferred OSD for placement. This is allowed but is not recommended
-since it can dramatically unbalance your storage cluster\(aqs space
-utilization.
+preferred OSD for placement. This feature is unsupported and ignored
+in modern versions of the Ceph servers; do not use it.
+
.SH AVAILABILITY
.sp
\fBcephfs\fP is part of the Ceph distributed file system. Please refer