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@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 -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/