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authorNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2005-06-07 23:16:36 +0000
committerNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2005-06-07 23:16:36 +0000
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Release 1.8.1 after some man page updates and other fixes.mdadm-1.11.1
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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.\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH MDADM 8 "" v1.11.0
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v1.11.1
.SH NAME
mdadm \- manage MD devices
.I aka
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ information so as to assemble a faulty array.
.TP
.B Build
-Build a legacy array without per-device superblocks.
+Build an array without per-device superblocks.
.TP
.B Create
@@ -234,6 +234,24 @@ in which case
says to get a list of array devices from
.BR /proc/mdstat .
+.TP
+.B -e ", " --metadata=
+Declare the style of superblock (raid metadata) to be used. The
+default is 0.90 for --create, and to guess for other operations.
+
+Options are:
+.RS
+.IP "0, 0.90, default"
+Use the original 0.90 format superblock. This format limits arrays to
+28 componenet devices and limits component devices of levels 1 and
+greater to 2 terabytes.
+.IP "1, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2"
+Use the new version-1 format superblock. This has few restrictions.
+The different subversion store the superblock at different locations
+on the device, either at the end (for 1.0), at the start (for 1.1) or
+4K from the start (for 1.2).
+.RE
+
.SH For create or build:
.TP