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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2008-12-08 16:59:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2008-12-08 16:59:18 -0700 |
| commit | 4cce4069597491f5714fd81605f212ad2da62e06 (patch) | |
| tree | da92c65cc25139409f3f23c7b0f5d1ec243dd754 /mdadm.8 | |
| parent | 88c32bb1ec5d0c12eb557c4f46832fa4e1076784 (diff) | |
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introduce --detail-platform to display platform raid capabilities
Metadata formats like imsm work in concert with platform firmware and
hardware, so provide a way for mdadm to display this info to the user.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mdadm.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mdadm.8 | 35 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ each device is a path to one common physical storage device. is also not true RAID, and it only involves one device. It provides a layer over a true device that can be used to inject faults. -B CONTAINER +.B CONTAINER is different again. A .B CONTAINER is a collection of devices that are @@ -364,9 +364,13 @@ creating a DDF array a .B CONTAINER will be created, and normal arrays can be created in that container. .IP imsm -Use the Intel Matrix Storage Manager metadata format. This creates a +Use the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager metadata format. This creates a .B CONTAINER -which is managed in a similar manner to DDF. +which is managed in a similar manner to DDF, and is supported by an +option-rom on some platforms: +.IP +.B http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/matrixstorage_sb.htm +.PP .RE .TP @@ -1009,6 +1013,11 @@ Information about what is discovered is presented. Print detail of one or more md devices. .TP +.BR \-\-detail\-platform +Print detail of the platform's raid capabilities (firmware / hardware +topology) for a given metadata format. + +.TP .BR \-Y ", " \-\-export When used with .B \-\-detail @@ -1562,6 +1571,26 @@ There was an error while trying to get information about the device. .RE .TP +.B \-\-detail\-platform +Print detail of the platform's raid capabilities (firmware / hardware +topology). If the metadata is specified with +.B \-e +or +.B \-\-metadata= +then the return status will be: +.RS +.TP +0 +metadata successfully enumerated its platform components on this system +.TP +1 +metadata is platform independent +.TP +2 +metadata failed to find its platform components on this system +.RE + +.TP .B \-\-examine The device should be a component of an md array. .I mdadm |