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-rw-r--r--ironic/conf/ilo.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ironic/conf/ilo.py b/ironic/conf/ilo.py
index 177f31369..5baaf3d4a 100644
--- a/ironic/conf/ilo.py
+++ b/ironic/conf/ilo.py
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ opts = [
help=_('Interval (in seconds) between periodic erase-devices '
'status checks to determine whether the asynchronous '
'out-of-band erase-devices was successfully finished or '
- 'not.')),
+ 'not. On an average, a 300GB HDD with default pattern '
+ '"overwrite" would take approximately 9 hours and '
+ '300GB SSD with default pattern "block" would take '
+ 'approx. 30 seconds to complete sanitize disk erase.')),
cfg.StrOpt('ca_file',
help=_('CA certificate file to validate iLO.')),
cfg.StrOpt('default_boot_mode',