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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-06-18 12:40:23 -0300
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docs: device-mapper: move it to the admin-guide
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped disk partitions from the userspace PoV. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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-========
-dm-delay
-========
-
-Device-Mapper's "delay" target delays reads and/or writes
-and maps them to different devices.
-
-Parameters::
-
- <device> <offset> <delay> [<write_device> <write_offset> <write_delay>
- [<flush_device> <flush_offset> <flush_delay>]]
-
-With separate write parameters, the first set is only used for reads.
-Offsets are specified in sectors.
-Delays are specified in milliseconds.
-
-Example scripts
-===============
-
-::
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # Create device delaying rw operation for 500ms
- echo "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` delay $1 0 500" | dmsetup create delayed
-
-::
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # Create device delaying only write operation for 500ms and
- # splitting reads and writes to different devices $1 $2
- echo "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` delay $1 0 0 $2 0 500" | dmsetup create delayed