From 253ba78f70669caa5db1fb39ae2fdc8b10abb90b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raiford Storey <raiford@google.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:49:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve the description of node flags in man page

[iustin@google.com: slightly reworded the explanation for offline and
changed the commit message]
Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
---
 man/gnt-node.sgml | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/gnt-node.sgml b/man/gnt-node.sgml
index 07b6f1028..a35042dbd 100644
--- a/man/gnt-node.sgml
+++ b/man/gnt-node.sgml
@@ -414,13 +414,18 @@
           <varlistentry>
             <term>drained</term>
             <listitem>
-              <simpara>whether the node is drained or not</simpara>
+              <simpara>whether the node is drained or not; the cluster
+              still communicates with drained nodes but excludes them
+              from allocation operations</simpara>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>
           <varlistentry>
             <term>offline</term>
             <listitem>
-              <simpara>whether the node is offline or not</simpara>
+              <simpara>whether the node is offline or not; if offline,
+              the cluster does not communicate with offline nodes;
+              useful for nodes that are not reachable in order to
+              avoid delays</simpara>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>
           <varlistentry>
-- 
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