From 257c1dc27eedba22fce2b3f518eeaec57eafc3b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:47:10 +1000 Subject: man pages: note that --auto is largely deprecated and irrelevant. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- mdadm.conf.5 | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mdadm.conf.5') diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5 index 7ef1765..87a8c1b 100644 --- a/mdadm.conf.5 +++ b/mdadm.conf.5 @@ -182,10 +182,15 @@ or missing drive but no spare. .TP .B auto= -This option declares to +This option is rarely needed with mdadm-3.0, particularly if use with +the Linux kernel v2.6.28 or later. +It tells .I mdadm -that it should try to create the device file of the array if it -doesn't already exist, or exists but with the wrong device number. +whether to use partitionable array or non-partitionable arrays and, +in the absence of +.IR udev , +how many partition devices to create. From 2.6.28 all md array +devices are partitionable, hence this option is not needed. The value of this option can be "yes" or "md" to indicate that a traditional, non-partitionable md array should be created, or "mdp", -- cgit v1.2.1