xfs_metadump.8: update for external log device options

Update the documentation to reflect that we can metadump external log
device contents.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>

diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_mdrestore.8 b/man/man8/xfs_mdrestore.8
index 6e7457c044565657b53fb63b43f15682d1f41304..f60e7b56ebf0d1128edcaa10368ec7d31d85b0d2 100644 (file)
--- a/man/man8/xfs_mdrestore.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_mdrestore.8
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ xfs_mdrestore \- restores an XFS metadump image to a filesystem image
 .br
 .B xfs_mdrestore
 .B \-i
+[
+.B \-l
+.I logdev
+]
 .I source
 .br
 .B xfs_mdrestore \-V
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ Shows metadump information on stdout.  If no
 is specified, exits after displaying information.  Older metadumps man not
 include any descriptive information.
 .TP
-.B \-l " logdev"
+.BI \-l " logdev"
 Metadump in v2 format can contain metadata dumped from an external log.
 In such a scenario, the user has to provide a device to which the log device
 contents from the metadump file are copied.

diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8 b/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8
index 1732012cd0cd061e822a7fa96279f4085e4bc1a6..496b5926603f4859954bc3f1fc6130f40e944f83 100644 (file)
--- a/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8
@@ -132,8 +132,11 @@ is stdout.
 .TP
 .BI \-l " logdev"
 For filesystems which use an external log, this specifies the device where the
-external log resides. The external log is not copied, only internal logs are
-copied.
+external log resides.
+If the v2 metadump format is selected, the contents of the external log will be
+copied to the metadump.
+The v2 metadump format will be selected automatically if this option is
+specified.
 .TP
 .B \-m
 Set the maximum size of an allowed metadata extent.  Extremely large metadata