From: David-Sarah Hopwood Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:38:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs/configuration.rst: clarification on scale suffixes for reserved_space. X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.10a1~27 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/?p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=eba64f2abaa6e7d0e155026129efefa77c25931f docs/configuration.rst: clarification on scale suffixes for reserved_space. refs #1812 Signed-off-by: David-Sarah Hopwood --- diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst index c458836d..b737a3d2 100644 --- a/docs/configuration.rst +++ b/docs/configuration.rst @@ -453,10 +453,11 @@ Storage Server Configuration runs.) This string contains a number, with an optional case-insensitive scale - suffix like "K" or "M" or "G", and an optional "B" or "iB" suffix. So - "100MB", "100M", "100000000B", "100000000", and "100000kb" all mean the - same thing. Likewise, "1MiB", "1024KiB", and "1048576B" all mean the same - thing. + suffix, optionally followed by "B" or "iB". The supported scale suffixes + are "K", "M", "G", "T", "P" and "E", and a following "i" indicates to use + powers of 1024 rather than 1000. So "100MB", "100 M", "100000000B", + "100000000", and "100000kb" all mean the same thing. Likewise, "1MiB", + "1024KiB", "1024 Ki", and "1048576 B" all mean the same thing. "``tahoe create-node``" generates a tahoe.cfg with "``reserved_space=1G``", but you may wish to raise, lower, or remove the