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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:31:36 +0000
The grammar was arguably incorrect (or at asymmetrical):
multipath is used to detect... and coalesces them
Also, I found the description for the `device' parameter
to be a little rough.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
.RB [\| device \|]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B multipath
-is used to detect multiple paths to devices for fail-over or performance reasons and coalesces them
+is used to detect and coalesce multiple paths to devices, for fail-over or performance reasons.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v " level"
Existing maps are not modified.
.TP
.BI device
-update only the devmap the path pointed by
-.I device
-is in.
-.I device
-is in the /dev/sdb (as shown by udev in the $DEVNAME variable) or major:minor format.
-.I device
-may alternatively be a multipath mapname
+update only the devmap specified by
+.IR device ,
+which is either:
+.RS 1.2i
+.IP \[bu]
+a devmap name
+.IP \[bu]
+a path associated with the desired devmap; the path may be in one of the following formats:
+.RS 1.2i
+.IP \[bu]
+.B /dev/sdb
+.IP \[bu]
+.B major:minor
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR multipathd (8),
.BR multipath.conf (5),