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author | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2005-12-05 05:56:33 +0000 |
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committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2005-12-05 05:56:33 +0000 |
commit | 7d99579f6a52fbf575e4707121ece51d0672277b (patch) | |
tree | 61745ca11734259875fa35139858875fb9185d79 /mdadm.8 | |
parent | ee04451c56f5bc39a77515e2e51897ac1fc15104 (diff) | |
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Support updating of uuid during --assemble.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mdadm.8')
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@@ -610,6 +610,7 @@ Update the superblock on each device while assembling the array. The argument given to this flag can be one of .BR sparc2.2 , .BR summaries , +.BR uuid , .BR resync , .BR byteorder , or @@ -617,7 +618,7 @@ or The .B sparc2.2 -option will adjust the superblock of an array what was created on a Sparc +option will adjust the superblock of an array what was created on a Sparc machine running a patched 2.2 Linux kernel. This kernel got the alignment of part of the superblock wrong. You can use the .B "--examine --sparc2.2" @@ -634,6 +635,14 @@ assembled. This is not needed on 2.6 and later kernels as they make this adjustment automatically. The +.B uuid +option will change the uuid of the array. If a UUID is given with the +"--uuid" option that UUID will be used as a new UUID and with +.B NOT +be used to help identify the devices in the array. +If no "--uuid" is given, a random uuid is chosen. + +The .B resync option will cause the array to be marked .I dirty |