2011-06-29 16:47:44

by Andreas Dilger

Subject: [PATCH] mke2fs: Document stripe_width, not stripe-width

For consistency with other multi-word options, document the extended
option stripe_width instead of stripe-width. This also avoids the
complexity of parsing options that have an embedded '-'.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
---
misc/mke2fs.8.in | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 0d4b046..6901497 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ This mostly affects placement of filesystem metadata like bitmaps at
time to avoid placing them on a single disk, which can hurt performance.
It may also be used by the block allocator.
.TP
-.BI stripe-width= stripe-width
+.BI stripe_width= stripe-width
Configure the filesystem for a RAID array with
.I stripe-width
filesystem blocks per stripe. This is typically stride-size * N, where
--
1.7.3.4

2011-07-18 03:14:09

by Theodore Ts'o

Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: Document stripe_width, not stripe-width

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:47:40AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> For consistency with other multi-word options, document the extended
> option stripe_width instead of stripe-width. This also avoids the
> complexity of parsing options that have an embedded '-'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>

Added to the e2fsprogs tree, thanks.

- Ted