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Martin K. Petersen
7e5f5fb09e block: Update topology documentation 
Update topology comments and sysfs documentation based upon discussions
with Neil Brown.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
 2009-08-01 10:24:35 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
c72758f337 block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions 
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.

  logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.

  physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write
  without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.

  The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by
  the device.  In many cases this is the same as the physical block
  size.  However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking
  (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size).

  The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by
  the device.  This is usually the stripe width for arrays.

  The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start
  of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment.
  Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets
  so filesystems start on proper boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
 2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
c1c72b5994 block: Data integrity infrastructure documentation 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
 2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Jerome Marchand
0e53c2be04 Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update 
Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
 2008-02-08 12:42:11 +01:00