Various minor improvements/fixes to the manpages

man/man1/ztest.1

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Max loops in
 .It Fl B , -alt-ztest Ns =
 Path to alternate ("older")
 .Nm ztest
-to drive, which will be used to initialise the pool, and, a stochastic half the
+to drive, which will be used to initialize the pool, and, a stochastic half the
 time, to run the tests.
 The parallel
 .Pa lib

man/man4/spl.4

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ when exceeding this value.
 .It Sy spl_kmem_cache_magazine_size Ns = Ns Sy 0 Pq uint
 Cache magazines are an optimization designed to minimize the cost of
 allocating memory.
-They do this by keeping a per-cpu cache of recently
+They do this by keeping a per-CPU cache of recently
 freed objects, which can then be reallocated without taking a lock.
 This can improve performance on highly contended caches.
 However, because objects in magazines will prevent otherwise empty slabs
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ For this reason,
 can be used to set a maximum magazine size.
 When this value is set to 0 the magazine size will
 be automatically determined based on the object size.
-Otherwise magazines will be limited to 2-256 objects per magazine (i.e per cpu).
-Magazines may never be entirely disabled in this implementation.
+Otherwise magazines will be limited to 2-256 objects per magazine (i.e. per
+CPU). Magazines may never be entirely disabled in this implementation.
 .
 .It Sy spl_hostid Ns = Ns Sy 0 Pq ulong
 The system hostid, when set this can be used to uniquely identify a system.

man/man4/zfs.4

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ transition to MRU, in which case the
 Setting it to 1 means to L2 cache only MFU data and metadata.
 .Pp
 Setting it to 2 means to L2 cache all metadata (MRU+MFU) but
-only MFU data (ie: MRU data are not cached). This can be the right setting
+only MFU data (i.e. MRU data are not cached). This can be the right setting
 to cache as much metadata as possible even when having high data turnover.
 .Pp
 Regardless of
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ in reading stored log metadata, or the metadata
 has become somehow fragmented/unusable).
 .
 .It Sy l2arc_rebuild_blocks_min_l2size Ns = Ns Sy 1073741824 Ns B Po 1 GiB Pc Pq u64
-Mininum size of an L2ARC device required in order to write log blocks in it.
+Minimum size of an L2ARC device required in order to write log blocks in it.
 The log blocks are used upon importing the pool to rebuild the persistent L2ARC.
 .Pp
 For L2ARC devices less than 1 GiB, the amount of data
@@ -571,16 +571,16 @@ most ZPL operations (e.g. write, create) will return
 .Sy ENOSPC .
 .
 .It Sy spa_num_allocators Ns = Ns Sy 4 Pq int
-Determines the number of block alloctators to use per spa instance.
+Determines the number of block allocators to use per spa instance.
 Capped by the number of actual CPUs in the system via
 .Sy spa_cpus_per_allocator .
 .Pp
 Note that setting this value too high could result in performance
-degredation and/or excess fragmentation.
+degradation and/or excess fragmentation.
 Set value only applies to pools imported/created after that.
 .
 .It Sy spa_cpus_per_allocator Ns = Ns Sy 4 Pq int
-Determines the minimum number of CPUs in a system for block alloctator
+Determines the minimum number of CPUs in a system for block allocator
 per spa instance.
 Set value only applies to pools imported/created after that.
 .
@@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ Max memory to use for dedup logs, as a percentage of total memory.
 .Pp
 If
 .Sy zfs_dedup_log_mem_max
-is not set, it will be initialised as a percentage of the total memory in the
+is not set, it will be initialized as a percentage of the total memory in the
 system.
 .
 .It Sy zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent Ns = Ns Sy 60 Ns % Pq uint
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ This should be less than
 .Sy zfs_vdev_async_write_active_min_dirty_percent .
 .
 .It Sy zfs_wrlog_data_max Ns = Pq int
-The upper limit of write-transaction zil log data size in bytes.
+The upper limit of write-transaction ZIL log data size in bytes.
 Write operations are throttled when approaching the limit until log data is
 cleared out after transaction group sync.
 Because of some overhead, it should be set at least 2 times the size of
@@ -1990,7 +1990,7 @@ as it typically results in leaked space, or worse.
 .It Sy zfs_removal_ignore_errors Ns = Ns Sy 0 Ns | Ns 1 Pq int
 Ignore hard I/O errors during device removal.
 When set, if a device encounters a hard I/O error during the removal process
-the removal will not be cancelled.
+the removal will not be canceled.
 This can result in a normally recoverable block becoming permanently damaged
 and is hence not recommended.
 This should only be used as a last resort when the
@@ -2395,7 +2395,7 @@ This controls the number of threads used by
 .Sy dp_zil_clean_taskq .
 The default value of
 .Sy 100%
-will create a maximum of one thread per cpu.
+will create a maximum of one thread per CPU.
 .
 .It Sy zil_maxblocksize Ns = Ns Sy 131072 Ns B Po 128 KiB Pc Pq uint
 This sets the maximum block size used by the ZIL.
@@ -2649,7 +2649,7 @@ and
 limits.
 .
 .It Sy zvol_volmode Ns = Ns Sy 1 Pq uint
-Defines zvol block devices behaviour when
+Defines zvol block devices behavior when
 .Sy volmode Ns = Ns Sy default :
 .Bl -tag -compact -offset 4n -width "a"
 .It Sy 1

man/man7/vdevprops.7

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ state of this vdev such as online, faulted, or offline
 .It Sy guid
 globally unique id of this vdev
 .It Sy asize
-The allocable size of this vdev
+The allocatable size of this vdev
 .It Sy psize
 The physical size of this vdev
 .It Sy ashift
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ The physical path to the device
 .It Sy encpath
 The enclosure path to the device
 .It Sy fru
-Field Replacable Unit, usually a model number
+Field Replaceable Unit, usually a model number
 .It Sy parent
 Parent of this vdev
 .It Sy children

man/man7/zfsprops.7

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ This property can also be referred to by its shortened column name,
 .It Sy logicalused
 The amount of space that is
 .Qq logically
-consumed by this dataset and all its descendents.
+consumed by this dataset and all its descendants.
 See the
 .Sy used
 property.
@@ -262,10 +262,10 @@ this opaque token can be provided to
 to resume and complete the
 .Nm zfs Cm receive .
 .It Sy redact_snaps
-For bookmarks, this is the list of snapshot guids the bookmark contains a
+For bookmarks, this is the list of snapshot GUIDs the bookmark contains a
 redaction
 list for.
-For snapshots, this is the list of snapshot guids the snapshot is redacted with
+For snapshots, this is the list of snapshot GUIDs the snapshot is redacted with
 respect to.
 .It Sy referenced
 The amount of data that is accessible by this dataset, which may or may not be
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ The type of dataset:
 or
 .Sy bookmark .
 .It Sy used
-The amount of space consumed by this dataset and all its descendents.
+The amount of space consumed by this dataset and all its descendants.
 This is the value that is checked against this dataset's quota and reservation.
 The space used does not include this dataset's reservation, but does take into
 account the reservations of any descendent datasets.
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The amount of space used by this dataset itself, which would be freed if the
 dataset were destroyed
 .Po after first removing any
 .Sy refreservation
-and destroying any necessary snapshots or descendents
+and destroying any necessary snapshots or descendants
 .Pc .
 .It Sy usedbyrefreservation
 The amount of space used by a
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@ cannot be changed once the volume has been written, so it should be set at
 volume creation time.
 The default
 .Sy blocksize
-for volumes is 16 Kbytes.
-Any power of 2 from 512 bytes to 128 Kbytes is valid.
+for volumes is 16 KiB.
+Any power of 2 from 512 bytes to 128 KiB is valid.
 .Pp
 This property can also be referred to by its shortened column name,
 .Sy volblock .
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ Setting a
 .Sy filesystem_limit
 to
 .Sy on
-a descendent of a filesystem that already has a
+a descendant of a filesystem that already has a
 .Sy filesystem_limit
 does not override the ancestor's
 .Sy filesystem_limit ,
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ as it was before.
 Controls whether the file system should be mounted with
 .Sy nbmand
 .Pq Non-blocking mandatory locks .
-Changes to this property only take effect when the file system is umounted and
+Changes to this property only take effect when the file system is unmounted and
 remounted.
 This was only supported by Linux prior to 5.15, and was buggy there,
 and is not supported by
@@ -1361,22 +1361,22 @@ then only metadata is cached.
 The default value is
 .Sy all .
 .It Sy quota Ns = Ns Ar size Ns | Ns Sy none
-Limits the amount of space a dataset and its descendents can consume.
+Limits the amount of space a dataset and its descendants can consume.
 This property enforces a hard limit on the amount of space used.
-This includes all space consumed by descendents, including file systems and
+This includes all space consumed by descendants, including file systems and
 snapshots.
-Setting a quota on a descendent of a dataset that already has a quota does not
+Setting a quota on a descendant of a dataset that already has a quota does not
 override the ancestor's quota, but rather imposes an additional limit.
 .Pp
 Quotas cannot be set on volumes, as the
 .Sy volsize
 property acts as an implicit quota.
 .It Sy snapshot_limit Ns = Ns Ar count Ns | Ns Sy none
 Limits the number of snapshots that can be created on a dataset and its
-descendents.
+descendants.
 Setting a
 .Sy snapshot_limit
-on a descendent of a dataset that already has a
+on a descendant of a dataset that already has a
 .Sy snapshot_limit
 does not override the ancestor's
 .Sy snapshot_limit ,
@@ -1607,11 +1607,11 @@ The default value is
 .It Sy refquota Ns = Ns Ar size Ns | Ns Sy none
 Limits the amount of space a dataset can consume.
 This property enforces a hard limit on the amount of space used.
-This hard limit does not include space used by descendents, including file
+This hard limit does not include space used by descendants, including file
 systems and snapshots.
 .It Sy refreservation Ns = Ns Ar size Ns | Ns Sy none Ns | Ns Sy auto
 The minimum amount of space guaranteed to a dataset, not including its
-descendents.
+descendants.
 When the amount of space used is below this value, the dataset is treated as if
 it were taking up the amount of space specified by
 .Sy refreservation .
@@ -2097,7 +2097,7 @@ value behavior, see the "ZFS Administration Guide".
 .Sy formD Ns | Ns Sy formKC Ns | Ns Sy formKD
 .Xc
 Indicates whether the file system should perform a
-.Sy unicode
+.Sy Unicode
 normalization of file names whenever two file names are compared, and which
 normalization algorithm should be used.
 File names are always stored unmodified, names are normalized as part of any

man/man7/zpool-features.7

@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ dedup tables.
 This feature will be
 .Sy active
 when the first deduplicated block is written after a new dedup table is created
-(ie after a new pool creation, or new checksum used on a dataset with
+(i.e. after a new pool creation, or new checksum used on a dataset with
 .Sy dedup
 enabled).
 It will be returned to the

man/man7/zpoolconcepts.7

@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ and both pools suffer a device failure at the same time,
 both could attempt to use the spare at the same time.
 This may not be detected, resulting in data corruption.
 .Pp
-An in-progress spare replacement can be cancelled by detaching the hot spare.
+An in-progress spare replacement can be canceled by detaching the hot spare.
 If the original faulted device is detached, then the hot spare assumes its
 place in the configuration, and is removed from the spare list of all active
 pools.

man/man8/zed.8.in

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Force the daemon to run if at all possible, disabling security checks and
 throwing caution to the wind.
 Not recommended for use in production.
 .It Fl F
-Don't daemonise: remain attached to the controlling terminal,
+Don't daemonize: remain attached to the controlling terminal,
 log to the standard I/O streams.
 .It Fl M
 Lock all current and future pages in the virtual memory address space.

man/man8/zfs-allow.8

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ form below for details.
 If neither of the
 .Fl dl
 options are specified, or both are, then the permissions are allowed for the
-file system or volume, and all of its descendents.
+file system or volume, and all of its descendants.
 .Pp
 Permissions are generally the ability to use a ZFS subcommand or change a ZFS
 property.
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ diff	subcommand	Allows lookup of paths within a dataset given an object number,
 hold	subcommand	Allows adding a user hold to a snapshot
 load-key	subcommand	Allows loading and unloading of encryption key (see \fBzfs load-key\fR and \fBzfs unload-key\fR).
 change-key	subcommand	Allows changing an encryption key via \fBzfs change-key\fR.
-mount	subcommand	Allows mounting/umounting ZFS datasets
+mount	subcommand	Allows mounting/unmounting ZFS datasets
 promote	subcommand	Must also have the \fBmount\fR and \fBpromote\fR ability in the origin file system
 receive	subcommand	Must also have the \fBmount\fR and \fBcreate\fR ability
 release	subcommand	Allows releasing a user hold which might destroy the snapshot
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ to the creator of any newly-created descendent file system.
 Defines or adds permissions to a permission set.
 The set can be used by other
 .Nm zfs Cm allow
-commands for the specified file system and its descendents.
+commands for the specified file system and its descendants.
 Sets are evaluated dynamically, so changes to a set are immediately reflected.
 Permission sets follow the same naming restrictions as ZFS file systems, but the
 name must begin with
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ command for a description of the
 options.
 .Bl -tag -width "-r"
 .It Fl r
-Recursively remove the permissions from this file system and all descendents.
+Recursively remove the permissions from this file system and all descendants.
 .El
 .It Xo
 .Nm zfs

man/man8/zfs-hold.8

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ listing the holds on the named snapshot.
 .It Fl H
 Do not print headers, use tab-delimited output.
 .It Fl p
-Prints holds timestamps as unix epoch timestamps.
+Prints holds timestamps as Unix epoch timestamps.
 .El
 .It Xo
 .Nm zfs

man/man8/zfs-send.8

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ hierarchy.
 When a snapshot is missing, instead of throwing an error and aborting the send,
 a warning is printed to the standard error stream and the dataset to which it
 belongs
-and its descendents are skipped.
+and its descendants are skipped.
 This flag can only be used in conjunction with
 .Fl R .
 .It Fl v , -verbose

man/man8/zpool-attach.8

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ is part of a two-way mirror, attaching
 creates a three-way mirror, and so on.
 In either case,
 .Ar new_device
-begins to resilver immediately and any running scrub is cancelled.
+begins to resilver immediately and any running scrub is canceled.
 .Pp
 If the existing device is a RAID-Z device
 .Pq e.g. specified as Qq Ar raidz2-0 ,

man/man8/zpool-events.8

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ See
 .Xr zfs 4
 for more details on the
 .Sy zfs_vdev_direct_write_verify
-module paramter.
+module parameter.
 .It Sy config
 Issued every time a vdev change have been done to the pool.
 .It Sy zpool

man/man8/zpool-remove.8

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ command initiates the removal and returns, while the evacuation continues in
 the background.
 The removal progress can be monitored with
 .Nm zpool Cm status .
-If an I/O error is encountered during the removal process it will be cancelled.
+If an I/O error is encountered during the removal process it will be canceled.
 The
 .Sy device_removal
 feature flag must be enabled to remove a top-level vdev, see

man/man8/zpool-replace.8

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ This is equivalent to attaching
 .Ar new-device ,
 waiting for it to resilver, and then detaching
 .Ar device .
-Any in progress scrub will be cancelled.
+Any in progress scrub will be canceled.
 .Pp
 The size of
 .Ar new-device

man/man8/zpool.8

@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ The value is not used, only the presence or absence of the variable matters.
 .It Sy ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_GUID
 Cause
 .Nm
-subcommands to output vdev guids by default.
+subcommands to output vdev GUIDs by default.
 This behavior is identical to the
 .Nm zpool Cm status Fl g
 command line option.