lttng-live: fix diagram

[lttng-docs.git] / contents / using-lttng / controlling-tracing / taking-a-snapshot.md

diff --git a/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/taking-a-snapshot.md b/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/taking-a-snapshot.md
index fd6ef22bcdc048b1e9ced662618bec7051c959d7..0a4ccf3cd1beb44a1140f9e0a94e03db18b9b550 100644 (file)
--- a/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/taking-a-snapshot.md
+++ b/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/taking-a-snapshot.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ events with the newest. At any time, either when the tracers are started
 or stopped, you may take a snapshot of those sub-buffers.
 
 There is no difference between the format of a normal trace file and the
-format of a snapshot: viewers of LTTng traces will also support LTTng
+format of a snapshot: viewers of LTTng traces also support LTTng
 snapshots. By default, snapshots are written to disk, but they may also
 be sent over the network.
 
@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ lttng create --snapshot my-snapshot-session
 </pre>
 
 Next, enable channels, events and add context to channels as usual.
-Once a tracing session is created in snapshot mode, channels will be
-forced to use the overwrite mode (`--overwrite` option of the
-`enable-channel` command) and have an `mmap()` channel type
+Once a tracing session is created in snapshot mode, channels are
+forced to use the
+[overwrite](#doc-channel-overwrite-mode-vs-discard-mode) mode
+(`--overwrite` option of the `enable-channel` command; also called
+_flight recorder mode_) and have an `mmap()` channel type
 (`--output mmap`).
 
 Start tracing. When you're ready to take a snapshot, do:
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ Start tracing. When you're ready to take a snapshot, do:
 lttng snapshot record --name my-snapshot
 </pre>
 
-This will record a snapshot named `my-snapshot` of all channels of
+This records a snapshot named `my-snapshot` of all channels of
 all domains of the current tracing session. By default, snapshots files
 are recorded in the path returned by `lttng snapshot list-output`. You
 may change this path or decide to send snapshots over the network
@@ -64,5 +66,5 @@ taking it with the `--max-size` option:
 lttng snapshot record --name my-snapshot --max-size 2M
 </pre>
 
-Older recorded events will be discarded in order to respect this
+Older recorded events are discarded in order to respect this
 maximum size.