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author | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2005-08-09 04:25:27 +0000 |
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committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2005-08-09 04:25:27 +0000 |
commit | 586ed40547a380b9f8bd58aa87c12fbaf6eabf65 (patch) | |
tree | e075277fb987eeba9e18ca0ed1e21aee4cd61a46 /mdadm.8 | |
parent | 8068890f1116c6fc5ae87596bb6b8272f79d2d1c (diff) | |
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Support fixing of byte-swapped superblocks.
Good for moving between little-endian and big-endian.
Still needs documentation.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ argument given to this flag can be one of .BR sparc2.2 , .BR summaries , .BR resync , +.BR byteorder , or .BR super-minor . @@ -556,6 +557,18 @@ to perform a "resync" pass to make sure that all redundant information is correct. The +.B byteorder +option allows arrays to be moved between machines with different +byte-order. +When assembling such an array for the first time after a move, giving +.B "--update=byteorder" +will cause +.I mdadm +to expect superblocks to have their byteorder reversed, and will +correct that order before assembling the array. This is only valid +with original (Verion 0.90) superblocks. + +The .B summaries option will correct the summaries in the superblock. That is the counts of total, working, active, failed, and spare devices. |