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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/witness.47
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/witness.4 b/share/man/man4/witness.4
index 7aa6553..c0014fa 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/witness.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/witness.4
@@ -95,9 +95,10 @@ The sysctl
.Va debug.witness.watch
specifies the level of witness involvement in the system.
A value of 1 specifies that witness is enabled.
-A value of 0 specifies that witness is disabled.
-This sysctl can be written to in order to
-disable witness, however it may not be used to enable witness.
+A value of 0 specifies that witness is disabled, but that can be enabled
+again. This will maintain a small amount of overhead in the system.
+A value of -1 specifies that witness is disabled permanently and that
+cannot be enabled again.
The sysctl
.Va debug.witness.watch
can be set via
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