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Diffstat (limited to 'mdadm.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mdadm.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ says to get a list of array devices from .TP .BR \-e ", " \-\-metadata= Declare the style of RAID metadata (superblock) to be used. The -default is 0.90 for +default is 1.1 for .BR \-\-create , and to guess for other operations. The default can be overridden by setting the @@ -323,15 +323,16 @@ keyword in Options are: .RS -.IP "0, 0.90, default" +.IP "0, 0.90" Use the original 0.90 format superblock. This format limits arrays to 28 component devices and limits component devices of levels 1 and greater to 2 terabytes. -.IP "1, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2" +.IP "1, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 default" Use the new version-1 format superblock. This has few restrictions. The different sub-versions store the superblock at different locations on the device, either at the end (for 1.0), at the start (for 1.1) or -4K from the start (for 1.2). +4K from the start (for 1.2). '1' is equivalent to '1.0', 'default' is +equivalent to '1.1'. .IP ddf Use the "Industry Standard" DDF (Disk Data Format) format defined by SNIA. |