Here are proposed semantics for the tracefile-size/tracefile-count 
enable-channel options (are they still planned for later inclusion in 
lttng-tools?):

-C, --tracefile-size SIZE
        This is a recent proposal (2013-Mar-08) that has yet to be added to the 
command.  Maximum size of each stored trace file (local or remote).  Default is 
zero, which means no limitation.  When set, each trace file is chopped into 
sequentially numbered segments of at most SIZE bytes each (e.g. "channel0_0" 
becomes "channel0_0_0", "channel0_0_1", etc.).  SIZE must be at least as large 
as the sub-buffer size.  The option is most useful if -W, --tracefile-count is 
also set.

-W, --tracefile-count NUM
        This is a recent proposal (2013-Mar-08) that has yet to be added to the 
command.  Maximum number of stored trace file chunks (local or remote).  
Default is zero, which means no limitation.  When set, once the number of trace 
file segments reaches NUM the first segments are re-used (overwritten), 
creating an on-disc circular buffer of sorts.  The option has no effect unless 
the -C, --tracefile-size option is also set.

   Note that when -C is set but -W is not (or if -W is set to 1), this means 
the single trace file gets overwritten after each SIZE bytes.

Daniel U. Thibault
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