From fe878f34df89ad4af758f40bbec829807dc93a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:41:24 +0100 Subject: dm thin: correct comments Remove documentation for unimplemented 'trim' message. I'd planned a 'trim' target message for shrinking thin devices, but this is better handled via the discard ioctl. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt index 1ff044d87ca4..da50347c0053 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt @@ -237,16 +237,6 @@ iii) Messages Deletes a thin device. Irreversible. - trim - - Delete mappings from the end of a thin device. Irreversible. - You might want to use this if you're reducing the size of - your thinly-provisioned device. In many cases, due to the - sharing of blocks between devices, it is not possible to - determine in advance how much space 'trim' will release. (In - future a userspace tool might be able to perform this - calculation.) - set_transaction_id Userland volume managers, such as LVM, need a way to -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b