Minor help text improvements/fixes.

[dss.git] / dss.ggo

diff --git a/dss.ggo b/dss.ggo
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--- a/dss.ggo
+++ b/dss.ggo
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
 #
+# Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
+
 package "dss"
-version "0.0.4"
+version "0.0.5"
 purpose "the dyadic snapshot scheduler
 
 dss creates hardlink-based snapshots of a given directory on a remote
@@ -188,12 +191,6 @@ details="
        to that option are passed verbatim to the rsync command.
 "
 
-option "exclude-patterns" e
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"Rsync exclude patterns"
-string typestr="path"
-optional
-
 ###################
 section "Intervals"
 ###################
@@ -258,13 +255,13 @@ string typestr="command"
 optional
 details="
        Execute this after a snapshot has successfully been
-       created. The full path of the newly created snapshot is passed
-       to the hook as the first argument.  The return value of that
-       hook is ignored.
+       created. The full path of the newly created snapshot is
+       passed to the hook as the first argument.  The exit code of
+       this hook is ignored.
 
        For instance this hook can be used to count the number of
        files per user and/or the disk usage patterns in order to
-       store them in a database for further treatment.
+       store them in a database for further analysis.
 "
 
 ###############################
@@ -304,13 +301,18 @@ option "min-free-percent-inodes" i
 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 "Minimal percent of free inodes"
 int typestr="percent"
-default="2"
+default="0"
 optional
 details="
        Specify the minimum amount of free inodes on the file system
        containing the destination dir. If less than that many inodes
-       are free, snatshot removal kicks in just as in case of low
+       are free, snapshot removal kicks in just as in case of low
        disk space.
 
-       A value of zero deactivates this check.
+       Note that not every file system supports the concept of inodes.
+       Moreover it is not possible to reliably detect whether this is
+       the case. Therefore this feature is disabled by default. It's
+       safe to enable it for ext3 file systems on linux though.
+
+       A value of zero (the default) deactivates this check.
 "