Bug#619265: Clarification

Scott Schaefer saschaefer at neurodiverse.org
Sat Jul 30 10:52:32 UTC 2011


Martin:

The submitter wants the mdadm manpage to list the options for each
mdadm mode in alphabetical order.

The current manpage has non-alphabetically-ordered options in nearly
every section.  Single example should suffice ...

Current manpage has section "For create, build, or grow", where the 
options are listed as:
    -n, --raid-devices=
    -x, --spare-devices=
    -z, --size=
    -Z, --array-size=
    -c, --chunk=
    --rounding=
    -l, --level=
    -p, --layout=
    --parity=
    -b, --bitmap=
    --bitmap-chunk=
    -W, --write-mostly
    --write-behind=
    --assume-clean
    --backup-file=
    --array-size=, -Z
    -N, --name=
    -R, --run
    -f, --force
    -a, --auto{=yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN}


The submitter is requesting (and I assume his set of patches produces) 
the revised output:

    -a, --auto{=yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN}
    --array-size=, -Z
    --assume-clean
    --backup-file=
    -b, --bitmap=
    --bitmap-chunk=
    -c, --chunk=
    -f, --force
    -l, --level=
    -N, --name=
    -n, --raid-devices=
    --parity=
    -p, --layout=
    --rounding=
    -R, --run
    --write-behind=
    -W, --write-mostly
    -x, --spare-devices=
    -Z, --array-size=
    -z, --size=

I can verify patches (and rebase for newest upstream mdadm.8.in) if you 
want to accept this change (and presumably forward upstream).






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