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@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ The ARRAY lines identify actual arrays. The second word on the line
may be the name of the device where the array is normally
assembled, such as
.BR /dev/md1 .
+Alternately the word
+.B <ignore>
+(complete with angle brackets) can be given in which case any array
+which matches the rest of the line will never be automatically assembled.
If no device name is given,
.I mdadm
will use various heuristic to determine an appropriate name.