From 745b959b44a67cd3def7c60b873701ad79137bda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 21:20:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] count: Clarify documentation

Updates: commit 3512c3ce9308b4d940119ac6cc87f1baa9afb655
(cherry picked from commit 7c84314ec7411fc1090bf1ca417c453d08fcf364)
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 filters/count/nbdkit-count-filter.pod | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/filters/count/nbdkit-count-filter.pod b/filters/count/nbdkit-count-filter.pod
index f0437000..c20b4737 100644
--- a/filters/count/nbdkit-count-filter.pod
+++ b/filters/count/nbdkit-count-filter.pod
@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@ nbdkit-count-filter - count bytes read, written, zeroed and trimmed
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
- nbdkit --filter=count plugin
+ nbdkit -fv --filter=count plugin
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 C<nbdkit-count-filter> is a filter for L<nbdkit(1)> that simply counts
 the number of bytes that are read, written, zeroed and trimmed, and
 reports this number in debugging output when the filter is unloaded
-(usually when nbdkit exits).
+(usually when nbdkit exits).  The filter output can only be seen when
+debugging is enabled (I<-v>) which usually implies using the
+foreground (I<-f>) option as well.
 
 This is a very simple and lightweight filter.  For much more
-comprehensive stats about and logging of operations, use
+comprehensive stats and logging of operations, use
 L<nbdkit-stats-filter(1)> or L<nbdkit-log-filter(1)> instead.
 
 =head1 PARAMETERS
-- 
2.47.1