[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: comments wiping supported algorithms

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Feb 29 08:37:47 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 08:24:43AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 04:02:59PM +0800, Alex Jia wrote:
> > The current scrub version doesn't support pfitzner7, pfitzner33 and schneier patterns
> > on RHEL, we should comment it in virsh man page.
> > 
> > * tools/virsh.pod: update wiping algorithms docs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Jia <ajia at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/virsh.pod |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
> > index c306a38..eba9389 100644
> > --- a/tools/virsh.pod
> > +++ b/tools/virsh.pod
> > @@ -2081,6 +2081,8 @@ B<Supported algorithms>
> >    pfitzner33 - Roy Pfitzner's 33-random-pass method: random x33.
> >    random     - 1-pass pattern: random.
> >  
> > +B<Note>: Not all algorithms of wiping are expected to work, it depends on concrete B<srub> version. 
> 
> I'd word this slightly differently:
> 
>   B<note> the availability of algorithms may be limited by the version
>   of the C<scrub> binary installed on the host.

  yeah, that's really more precise :-)

Daniel

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