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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400
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man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pages
Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas, capitalization, spelling, etc. To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were revised. [zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
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diff --git a/man/systemd-readahead-replay.service.xml b/man/systemd-readahead-replay.service.xml
index a00f7e589b..806d46093b 100644
--- a/man/systemd-readahead-replay.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-readahead-replay.service.xml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
time. <filename>systemd-readahead-replay.service</filename>
is a service that replays this access data collected
at the subsequent boot. Since disks tend to be
- magnitudes slower than RAM this is intended to improve
+ magnitudes slower than RAM, this is intended to improve
boot speeds by pre-loading early at boot all data on
disk that is known to be read for the complete boot
process.</para>
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@
<para><filename>systemd-readahead-done.service</filename>
is executed a short while after boot completed and signals
<filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>
- to end data collection. On this signal this service
+ to end data collection. On this signal, this service
will then sort the collected disk accesses and store
- information about them disk in
+ information about them in
<filename>/.readahead</filename>.</para>
<para>Normally, both
@@ -92,17 +92,17 @@
are activated at boot so that access patterns from the
preceding boot are replayed and new data collected
for the subsequent boot. However, on read-only media
- where the collected data cannot be stored it might
+ where the collected data cannot be stored, it might
be a good idea to disable
<filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>.</para>
<para>On rotating media, when replaying disk accesses
- at early boot
+ at early boot,
<filename>systemd-readahead-replay.service</filename>
will order read requests by their location on disk. On
non-rotating media, they will be ordered by their
original access timestamp. If the file system supports
- it
+ it,
<filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>
will also defragment and rearrange files on disk to
optimize subsequent boot times.</para>
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
<term><option>--file-size-max=</option></term>
<listitem><para>Maximum size of files
- (in bytes) to read ahead. Only valid
+ in bytes to read ahead. Only valid
for the <command>collect</command>
and <command>replay</command>
commands.</para></listitem>
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--timeout=</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Maximum time (in usec)
- to to spend collecting data. Only valid
+ <listitem><para>Maximum time in microseconds
+ to spend collecting data. Only valid
for the <command>collect</command>
command.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
[<replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable>]</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Collect read-ahead data on
- early boot. When terminating it will
+ early boot. When terminating, it will
write out a pack file to the indicated
directory containing the read-ahead
data. </para>
@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>Dumps the content of the
read-ahead pack file to the
- terminal. The output lists
- approximately for each file
- how much will be read-ahead by
+ terminal. For each file, the
+ output lists approximately how
+ much will be read ahead by
the <command>replay</command>
command.</para>
</listitem>