X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fpublic-inbox-xcpdb.pod;h=fd8770a43195c4c05d3b3449acc03305ca8c8c54;hb=e9eb3af852778a67533e9579b14695763535d262;hp=a04fd374ce1ba49146d5a14e3932627d7827040d;hpb=e665a4fa317bf9ceea812bc9ca3f486ec722dfea;p=public-inbox.git

diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-xcpdb.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-xcpdb.pod
index a04fd374..fd8770a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-xcpdb.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-xcpdb.pod
@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ preferable for gigantic inboxes where the coarse-grained lock
 currently required for L<public-inbox-compact(1)> can cause
 the compaction to take hours at-a-time.
 
+=item --reshard=N / -R N
+
+Repartition the Xapian database on a L<v2|public-inbox-v2-format(5)>
+inbox to C<N> partitions.  Since L<xapian-compact(1)> is not suitable
+for merging, users can rely on this switch to repartition the
+existing Xapian database(s) to any positive value of C<N>.
+
+This is useful in case the Xapian DB was created with too few or
+too many partitions given the capabilities of the current
+hardware.
+
 =item --blocksize / --no-full / --fuller
 
 These options are passed directly to L<xapian-compact(1)> when