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author | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-10-10 07:06:08 +1000 |
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committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-10-10 07:06:08 +1000 |
commit | 45c073c921cfbfe23eaafa0b2bb0986e85e60e27 (patch) | |
tree | b1bbef6500ff196bb80f0ba52d43a87b5a6862b9 /mdadm.8 | |
parent | c1c05f7f9a878046b1378805d3f454ccdc21cc41 (diff) | |
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Clarify when update=super-minor happens automatcially
.. in man page
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@@ -724,8 +724,15 @@ The option will update the .B "preferred minor" field on each superblock to match the minor number of the array being -assembled. This is not needed on 2.6 and later kernels as they make -this adjustment automatically. +assembled. +This can be useful if +.B --examine +reports a different "Preferred Minor" to +.BR --detail . +In some cases this update will be performed automatically +by the kernel driver. In particular the update happens automatically +at the first write to an array with redundancy (RAID level 1 or +greater) on a 2.6 (or later) kernel. The .B uuid |