Pascal Charest: Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1. x metadata.
Martin F. Krafft
madduck at alioth.debian.org
Thu Feb 5 19:35:16 UTC 2009
Module: mdadm
Branch: build
Commit: 5b53734ed8d9648205957b1b555a4e45fdcb510d
URL: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commit;h=5b53734ed8d9648205957b1b555a4e45fdcb510d
Author: Pascal Charest <pascal.charest at gmail.com>
Date: Fri Nov 14 16:20:51 2008 +1100
Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb at suse.de>
---
mdadm.8 | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index f5afec1..d17b77f 100644
--- a/mdadm.8
+++ b/mdadm.8
@@ -1360,6 +1360,14 @@ is being created, then the name
.B home
will be used.
+When creating a partition based array, using
+.I mdadm
+with version-1.x metadata, the partition type should be set to
+.B 0xDA
+(non fs-data). This type selection allows for greater precision since
+using any other [RAID auto-detect (0xFD) or a GNU/Linux partition (0x83)],
+might create problems in the event of array recovery through a live cdrom.
+
A new array will normally get a randomly assigned 128bit UUID which is
very likely to be unique. If you have a specific need, you can choose
a UUID for the array by giving the
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