svn commit: r43242 - projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs

[Benjamin Kaduk]

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.

> +	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?

> +	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/

-Ben

> +	copies of the file information.  Be warned: deduplication requires an