From d2985386925fab3abe075852db46df29b56c95bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olaf Hering Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:43:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: mention whitespace handling diskspec target= parsing disk=[ ' target=/dev/loop0 ' ] will fail to parse because '/dev/loop ' does not exist. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Acked-by: Ian Campbell --- docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt index 5bd456d884..cf22397ba4 100644 --- a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt +++ b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt @@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ Special syntax: When this parameter is specified by name, ie with the "target=" syntax in the configuration file, it consumes the whole rest of the - . Therefore in that case it must come last. This is - permissible even if an empty value for the target was already - specified as a positional parameter. This is the only way to - specify a target string containing metacharacters such as commas - and (in some cases) colons, which would otherwise be + including trailing whitespaces. Therefore in that case + it must come last. This is permissible even if an empty value for + the target was already specified as a positional parameter. This + is the only way to specify a target string containing metacharacters + such as commas and (in some cases) colons, which would otherwise be misinterpreted. Future parameter and flag names will start with an ascii letter and -- 2.30.2