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authorZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>2015-10-12 11:35:53 +0200
committerZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>2015-10-13 15:15:43 +0200
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downloadlvm2-3f03d46fc13be2274b3c29d4fc97a3306bc33eda.tar.gz
man: dmeventd update
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@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
.TH DMEVENTD 8 "DM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Red Hat Inc" \" -*- nroff -*-
+.
.SH NAME
+.
dmeventd \(em Device-mapper event daemon
+.
.SH SYNOPSIS
+.
.B dmeventd
.RB [ \-d
.RB [ \-d
@@ -11,33 +15,53 @@ dmeventd \(em Device-mapper event daemon
.RB [ \-R ]
.RB [ \-V ]
.RB [ \-? ]
+.
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.
dmeventd is the event monitoring daemon for device-mapper devices.
Library plugins can register and carry out actions triggered when
particular events occur.
-.SH
-LVM PLUGINS
-.TP
-.I Mirror
-Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5).
-.TP
-.I Raid
-Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5).
-.TP
-.I Snapshot
+.
+.SH LVM PLUGINS
+.
+.HP
+.IR Mirror
+.br
+Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See
+.BR lvm.conf (5).
+.
+.HP
+.IR Raid
+.br
+Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See
+.BR lvm.conf (5).
+.
+.HP
+.IR Snapshot
+.br
Monitors how full a snapshot is becoming and emits a warning to
syslog when it exceeds 80% full.
The warning is repeated when 85%, 90% and 95% of the snapshot is filled.
-See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5).
-.TP
-.I Thin
-Monitors how full a thin pool is becoming and emits a warning to
-syslog when it exceeds 80% full.
+See
+.BR lvm.conf (5).
+Snapshot which runs out of space gets invalid and when it is mounted,
+it gets umounted if possible.
+.
+.HP
+.IR Thin
+.br
+Monitors how full a thin pool data and metadata is becoming and emits
+a warning to syslog when it exceeds 80% full.
The warning is repeated when 85%, 90% and 95% of the thin pool is filled.
-See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5).
+See
+.BR lvm.conf (5).
+If the thin-pool runs out of space, thin volumes are umounted if possible.
+.
.SH OPTIONS
-.TP
-.B \-d
+.
+.HP
+.BR \-d
+.br
Repeat from 1 to 3 times (
.BR \-d ,
.BR \-dd ,
@@ -45,21 +69,35 @@ Repeat from 1 to 3 times (
) to increase the detail of
debug messages sent to syslog.
Each extra d adds more debugging information.
-.TP
-.B \-f
+.
+.HP
+.BR \-f
+.br
Don't fork, run in the foreground.
-.TP
-.BR \-h ", " \-?
+.
+.HP
+.BR \-h
+.br
Show help information.
-.TP
-.B \-R
+.
+.HP
+.BR \-?
+.br
+Show help information on stderr.
+.
+.HP
+.BR \-R
+.br
Replace a running dmeventd instance. The running dmeventd must be version
2.02.77 or newer. The new dmeventd instance will obtain a list of devices and
events to monitor from the currently running daemon.
-.TP
-.B \-V
+.
+.HP
+.BR \-V
+.br
Show version of dmeventd.
-
+.
.SH SEE ALSO
+.
.BR lvm (8),
.BR lvm.conf (5)