Commit 2971c058 authored by Russell Harmon's avatar Russell Harmon Committed by Mike Snitzer
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Documentation: dm-integrity: Document an example of how the tunables relate.

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@@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ table and swap the tables with suspend and resume). The other arguments
should not be changed when reloading the target because the layout of disk
data depend on them and the reloaded target would be non-functional.

For example, on a device using the default interleave_sectors of 32768, a
block_size of 512, and an internal_hash of crc32c with a tag size of 4
bytes, it will take 128 KiB of tags to track a full data area, requiring
256 sectors of metadata per data area. With the default buffer_sectors of
128, that means there will be 2 buffers per metadata area, or 2 buffers
per 16 MiB of data.

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