Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:44:22 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Cc: svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Warren Block <wblock@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r43242 - projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311252031520.50370@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1311251304360.27579@multics.mit.edu> References: <201311250558.rAP5w8LT097854@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1311251304360.27579@multics.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Warren Block wrote: > >> Author: wblock >> Date: Mon Nov 25 05:58:08 2013 >> New Revision: 43242 >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43242 >> >> Log: >> Edits for clarity and simplicity. >> >> Modified: >> projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml >> ============================================================================== >> --- >> projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml >> Mon Nov 25 04:36:45 2013 (r43241) >> +++ >> projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml >> Mon Nov 25 05:58:08 2013 (r43242) >> @@ -732,10 +732,10 @@ History for 'tank': >> 2013-02-27.18:51:13 [internal create txg:55] dataset = 39 >> 2013-02-27.18:51:18 zfs create tank/backup</screen> >> >> - <para>The other more detailed history display can be invoked by >> - using the <literal>-l</literal> command. This will show the >> - log records in long format, which includes more information >> - like the user name who issued the command and the hostname on >> + <para>A more-detailed history is invoked by > > I do not think that "invoked" is quite the right word here; we are not > calling upon the history, but rather printing it. Agreed, and that sentence can be simplified also. >> + adding <literal>-l</literal>. >> + Log records are shown in long format, including information >> + like the name of the user who issued the command and the hostname on >> which the change was made.</para> >> >> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>zpool history -l</userinput> >> @@ -842,55 +840,53 @@ data 288G 1.53T >> <sect2 xml:id="zfs-zfs-create"> >> <title>Creating & Destroying Datasets</title> >> >> - <para>Unlike with traditional disks and volume managers, space >> - in <acronym>ZFS</acronym> is not preallocated, allowing >> - additional file systems to be created at any time. With >> - traditional file systems, once all of the space was >> - partitioned and assigned to a file system, there was no way to >> + <para>Unlike traditional disks and volume managers, space >> + in <acronym>ZFS</acronym> is not preallocated. >> + Wtraditional file systems, once all of the space was > > typo? Wwhere? :) >> + partitioned and assigned, there was no way to >> add an additional file system without adding a new disk. >> @@ -1209,65 +1201,59 @@ tank custom:costcenter - >> <para>When enabled, >> <link linkend="zfs-term-deduplication">Deduplication</link> >> uses the checksum of each block to detect duplicate blocks. >> + When a new block is a duplicate of an existing block, >> + <acronym>ZFS</acronym> writes an additional reference to >> + the existing data instead of the whole duplicate block. This can >> offer >> + tremendous space savings if the data contains many discreet > > s/discreet/discrete/ Yes, but the usage is questionable anyway. Rewritten.help
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