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index c98934a..6af0c3f 100644
--- a/man/gnt-cluster.sgml
+++ b/man/gnt-cluster.sgml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <!-- Fill in your name for FIRSTNAME and SURNAME. -->
   <!-- Please adjust the date whenever revising the manpage. -->
-  <!ENTITY dhdate      "<date>June 20, 2007</date>">
+  <!ENTITY dhdate      "<date>December 12, 2007</date>">
   <!-- SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection other parameters are
        allowed: see man(7), man(1). -->
   <!ENTITY dhsection   "<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>">
@@ -102,6 +102,21 @@
       </para>
 
       <para>
+        The command is executed serially on the selected nodes. If the
+        master node is present in the list, the command will be
+        executed last on the master. Regarding the other nodes, the
+        execution order is somewhat alphabetic (it's smarter so that
+        node2.example.com will be earlier than node10.example.com but
+        after node1.example.com).
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        So given the node names node1, node2, node3, node10, node11,
+        with node3 being the master, the order will be: node1, node2,
+        node10, node11, node3.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
         The command is constructed by concatenating all other command
         line arguments. For example, to list the contents of the
         <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> directory on all
@@ -195,6 +210,11 @@
         <command>init</command>
         <arg>-s <replaceable>secondary_ip</replaceable></arg>
         <arg>-b <replaceable>bridge</replaceable></arg>
+        <arg>-t <replaceable>hypervisor-type</replaceable></arg>
+        <arg>-g <replaceable>vg-name</replaceable></arg>
+        <arg>--master-netdev <replaceable>vg-name</replaceable></arg>
+        <arg>-m <replaceable>mac-prefix</replaceable></arg>
+        <arg>--no-lvm-storage</arg>
         <arg choice="req"><replaceable>clustername</replaceable></arg>
       </cmdsynopsis>
 
@@ -208,7 +228,8 @@
         Note that the <replaceable>clustername</replaceable> is not
         any random name. It has to be resolvable to an IP address
         using DNS, and it is best if you give the fully-qualified
-        domain name.
+        domain name. This hostname must resolve to an IP address
+        reserved exclusively for this purpose.
       </para>
 
       <para>
@@ -226,7 +247,6 @@
 
       <para>
         Note that for Ganeti it doesn't matter if the secondary
-
         network is actually a separate physical network, or is done
         using tunneling, etc. For performance reasons, it's
         recommended to use a separate network, of course.
@@ -236,6 +256,50 @@
         The <option>-b</option> option specifies the default bridge
         for instances.
       </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The <option>-t</option> allows to set the hypervisor type of
+        the cluster. Available hypervisor types are: xen-pvm, fake and
+        xen-hvm. The default is the xen-pvm hypervisor.
+        Note that if you init the cluster with hypervisor-type
+        xen-hvm you also need to provide the cluster VNC password
+        file <filename>/etc/ganeti/vnc-cluster-password</filename>
+        because HVM instances require it for VNC console
+        authentication.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The <option>-g</option> option will let you specify a volume group
+        different than 'xenvg' for ganeti to use when creating instance disks.
+        This volume group must have the same name on all nodes. Once the
+        cluster is initialized this can be altered by using the
+        <command>modify</command> command. If you don't want to use lvm
+        storage at all use the <option>--no-lvm-storage</option> option.
+        Once the cluster is initialized you can change this setup with the
+        <command>modify</command> command.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The <option>--master-netdev</option> option is useful for specifying a
+        different interface on which the master will activate its IP address.
+        It's important that all nodes have this interface because you'll need
+        it for a master failover.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The <option>-m</option> option will let you specify a three byte prefix
+        under which the virtual MAC addresses of your instances will be
+        generated. The prefix must be specified in the format XX:XX:XX and the
+        default is aa:00:00.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The <option>--no-lvm-storage</option> allows you to initialize the
+        cluster without lvm support. This means that only instances using
+        files as storage backend will be possible to create. Once the cluster
+        is initialized you can change this setup with the
+        <command>modify</command> command.
+      </para>
     </refsect2>
 
     <refsect2>
@@ -261,6 +325,25 @@
     </refsect2>
 
     <refsect2>
+      <title>MODIFY</title>
+
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>modify</command>
+        <arg choice="opt">-g <replaceable>vg-name</replaceable></arg>
+        <arg choice="opt">--no-lvm-storage</arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+
+        <para>
+          Modify the options for the cluster.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+          The <option>-g</option> and <option>--no-lvm-stoarge</option> are
+          described in the <command>init</command> command.
+        </para>
+    </refsect2>
+
+    <refsect2>
       <title>REMOVE-TAGS</title>
 
       <cmdsynopsis>
@@ -348,6 +431,7 @@
 
       <cmdsynopsis>
         <command>verify</command>
+        <arg choice="opt">--no-nplus1-mem</arg>
       </cmdsynopsis>
 
       <para>
@@ -355,6 +439,32 @@
         respect to running instances, and incurs no downtime of the
         instances.
       </para>
+
+      <para>
+        If the <option>--no-nplus1-mem</option> option is given, ganeti won't
+        check whether if it loses a node it can restart all the instances on
+        their secondaries (and report an error otherwise).
+      </para>
+    </refsect2>
+
+    <refsect2>
+      <title>VERIFY-DISKS</title>
+
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>verify-disks</command>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+
+      <para>
+        The command checks which instances have degraded DRBD disks
+        and activates the disks of those instances.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        This command is run from the <command>ganeti-watcher</command>
+        tool, which also has a different, complementary algorithm for
+        doing this check. Together, these two should ensure that DRBD
+        disks are kept consistent.
+      </para>
     </refsect2>
 
     <refsect2>