From ab1887fe4719a296c2bd4b4778348f55f1b7a49a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Rockai Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:47:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: Update the lvscan manpage with a section on --cache. --- man/lvscan.8.in | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/lvscan.8.in b/man/lvscan.8.in index fad0fbeaf..0b6e50b09 100644 --- a/man/lvscan.8.in +++ b/man/lvscan.8.in @@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ mimage_0, mimage_1, and mlog. .BR \-b ", " \-\-blockdevice This option is now ignored. Instead, use \fBlvs\fP(8) or \fBlvdisplay\fP(8) to obtain the device number. +.TP +.IR \fB\-\-cache " " LogicalVolume +Applicable only when \fBlvmetad\fP(8) is in use (see also \fBlvm.conf\fP(5), +global/use_lvmetad). This command issues a rescan of physical volume labels and +metadata areas of all PVs that the logical volume uses. In particular, this can +be used when a RAID logical volume becomes degraded, to update information +about physical volume availability. This is only necessary if the logical +volume is \fBnot\fP being monitored by dmeventd (see \fBlvchange\fP(8), option +\fB\-\-monitor\fP). .SH SEE ALSO .BR lvm (8), .BR lvcreate (8),