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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2018-06-29 04:00:14 +0300
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2018-07-02 23:14:02 +0300
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parent021c91791a5e7e85c567452f1be3e4c2c6cb6063 (diff)
downloadlinux-d284f8248c72d0cb36a930920e60592eb455cd0d.tar.xz
dm writecache: support optional offset for start of device
Add an optional parameter "start_sector" to allow the start of the device to be offset by the specified number of 512-byte sectors. The sectors below this offset are not used by the writecache device and are left to be used for disk labels and/or userspace metadata (e.g. lvm). Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt
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@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Constructor parameters:
size)
5. the number of optional parameters (the parameters with an argument
count as two)
+ start_sector n (default: 0)
+ offset from the start of cache device in 512-byte sectors
high_watermark n (default: 50)
start writeback when the number of used blocks reach this
watermark