Description: Added fixes for typical confusion hyphen <-> minus sign. Author: David Martínez Moreno (presumably) Date: 2007-04-08 Last-Update: 2015-07-29 --- a/vblade.8 +++ b/vblade.8 @@ -35,39 +35,39 @@ .SS Options .TP \fB-b\fP -The -b flag takes an argument, the advertised buffer count, specifying +The \-b flag takes an argument, the advertised buffer count, specifying the maximum number of outstanding messages the server can queue for processing. .TP \fB-d\fP -The -d flag selects O_DIRECT mode for accessing the underlying block +The \-d flag selects O_DIRECT mode for accessing the underlying block device. .TP \fB-s\fP -The -s flag selects O_SYNC mode for accessing the underlying block +The \-s flag selects O_SYNC mode for accessing the underlying block device, so all writes are committed to disk before returning to the client. .TP \fB-r\fP -The -r flag restricts the export of the device to be read-only. +The \-r flag restricts the export of the device to be read-only. .TP \fB-m\fP -The -m flag takes an argument, a comma separated list of MAC addresses +The \-m flag takes an argument, a comma separated list of MAC addresses permitted access to the vblade. A MAC address can be specified in upper or lower case, with or without colons. .TP \fB-o\fP -The -o flag takes an argument, the number of sectors at the beginning +The \-o flag takes an argument, the number of sectors at the beginning of the exported file that are excluded from AoE export (default zero). .TP \fB-l\fP -The -l flag takes an argument, the number of sectors to export. +The \-l flag takes an argument, the number of sectors to export. Defaults to the file size in sectors minus the offset. .SH EXAMPLE In this example, the root user on a host named .I nai exports a file named "3TB" to the LAN on eth0 using AoE shelf address 11 -and slot address 1. The process runs in the foreground. Using +and slot address 1. The process runs in the foreground. Using .I vbladed would have resulted in the process running as a daemon in the background.