dm stripe: support for non power of 2 chunksize
Support non-power-of-2 chunk sizes with dm striping for proper alignment
of stripe IO on storage that has non-power-of-2 optimal IO sizes (e.g.
RAID6 10+2).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt
index 953fe1d..45f3b91 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
Parameters: <num devs> <chunk size> [<dev path> <offset>]+
<num devs>: Number of underlying devices.
- <chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be a power-of-2 and at
- least as large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
+ <chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be at least as
+ large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
<dev path>: Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
"major:minor" device-number.
<offset>: Starting sector within the device.