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| author | Pascal Charest <pascal.charest@gmail.com> | 2008-06-26 09:21:40 +1000 |
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| committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2008-06-26 09:21:40 +1000 |
| commit | e0f31f50be063c319309ce680ac48f29a5db5589 (patch) | |
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| parent | 51ac42e39276bf5e18cfee4edffd1f74af4fbfa6 (diff) | |
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Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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@@ -1360,6 +1360,14 @@ is being created, then the name .B home will be used. +When creating a partition based array, using +.I mdadm +with version-1.x metadata, the partition type should be set to +.B 0xDA +(non fs-data). This type selection allows for greater precision since +using any other [RAID auto-detect (0xFD) or a GNU/Linux partition (0x83)], +might create problems in the event of array recovery through a live cdrom. + A new array will normally get a randomly assigned 128bit UUID which is very likely to be unique. If you have a specific need, you can choose a UUID for the array by giving the |