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diff --git a/doc/man/lttng.1 b/doc/man/lttng.1
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .TH "LTTNG" "1" "December 3rd, 2012" "" ""
 
 .SH "NAME"
-lttng \(em LTTng 2.1.x tracer control command line tool
+lttng \(em LTTng 2.x tracer control command line tool
 
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 
@@ -327,17 +327,21 @@ same type.
 \-\-overwrite
         Flight recorder mode : overwrites events when subbuffers are full
 \-\-subbuf-size SIZE
-        Subbuffer size in bytes (default: 4096, kernel default: 262144)
-        Needs to be a power of 2 for both tracers
+        Subbuffer size in bytes {+k,+M,+G}
+        (default UST uid: 131072, UST pid: 4096, kernel: 262144, metadata: 4096)
+        Rounded up to the next power of 2.
 \-\-num-subbuf NUM
-        Number of subbuffers (default: 4)
-        Needs to be a power of 2 for both tracers
+        Number of subbuffers. (default UST uid: 4, UST pid: 4, kernel: 4, metadata: 2)
+        Rounded up to the next power of 2.
 \-\-switch-timer USEC
-        Switch subbuffer timer interval in µsec (default: 0)
+        Switch subbuffer timer interval in µsec.
+        (default UST uid: 0, UST pid: 0, kernel: 0, metadata: 0)
 \-\-read-timer USEC
-        Read timer interval in µsec (default: 200)
+        Read timer interval in µsec.
+        (default UST uid: 0, UST pid: 0, kernel: 200000, metadata: 0)
 \-\-output TYPE
         Channel output type. Possible values: mmap, splice
+        (default UST uid: mmap, UST pid: mmap, kernel: splice, metadata: mmap)
 \-\-buffers-uid
         Use per UID buffer (\-u only). Buffers are shared between applications
         that have the same UID.
@@ -345,6 +349,30 @@ same type.
         Use per PID buffer (\-u only). Each application has its own buffers.
 \-\-buffers-global
         Use shared buffer for the whole system (\-k only)
+\-C, \-\-tracefile-size SIZE
+        Maximum size of each tracefile within a stream (in bytes).
+		0 means unlimited. (default: 0)
+\-W, \-\-tracefile-count COUNT
+        Used in conjunction with \-C option, this will limit the number
+        of files created to the specified count. 0 means unlimited. (default: 0)
+
+.B EXAMPLES:
+
+$ lttng enable-channel -C 4096 -W 32 chan1
+For each stream, the maximum size of a trace file will be 4096 bytes divided
+over a \fBmaximum\fP of 32 different files. The file count is appended after
+the stream number as seen in the following example. The last trace file is
+smaller than 4096 since it was not completely filled.
+
+        ~/lttng-traces/[...]/chan1_0_0 (4096)
+        ~/lttng-traces/[...]/chan1_0_1 (4096)
+        ~/lttng-traces/[...]/chan1_0_2 (3245)
+        ~/lttng-traces/[...]/chan1_1_0 (4096)
+        ...
+
+$ lttng enable-channel -C 4096
+This will create trace files of 4096 bytes and will create new ones as long as
+there is data available.
 .fi
 
 .IP