Trivial bugfix and spelling fixes.

[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / mdadm.8.in

diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
index 255b6505009f8143f6a71ec8cb6d7fce012fd6f2..d30963b66488ecbf394f9cab3fd2f1e013d458f6 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.8.in
+++ b/mdadm.8.in
@@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ Options are:
 .IP "0, 0.90, default"
 .el
 .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.  It is also possible for there to be confusion
@@ -342,7 +341,6 @@ last partition, if that partition starts on a 64K boundary.
 .IP "1, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2"
 .el
 .IP "1, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 default"
-..
 Use the new version-1 format superblock.  This has fewer restrictions.
 It can easily be moved between hosts with different endian-ness, and a
 recovery operation can be checkpointed and restarted.  The different
@@ -787,7 +785,7 @@ Since Linux 3.4,
 can also be used with
 .B --grow
 for some RAID levels (initially on RAID10).  This allows the
-data-offset to be changed as part of the reshape process.  When the
+data\-offset to be changed as part of the reshape process.  When the
 data offset is changed, no backup file is required as the difference
 in offsets is used to provide the same functionality.
 
@@ -795,6 +793,17 @@ When the new offset is earlier than the old offset, the number of
 devices in the array cannot shrink.  When it is after the old offset,
 the number of devices in the array cannot increase.
 
+When creating an array,
+.B \-\-data\-offset
+can be specified as
+.BR variable .
+In the case each member device is expected to have a offset appended
+to the name, separated by a colon.  This makes it possible to recreate
+exactly an array which has varying data offsets (as can happen when
+different versions of
+.I mdadm
+are used to add different devices).
+
 .TP
 .BR \-\-continue
 This option is complementary to the
@@ -923,30 +932,6 @@ This is meaningful with
 or
 .BR \-\-build .
 
-.ig XX
-.\".TP
-.\".BR \-\-symlink = no
-.\"Normally when
-.\".B \-\-auto
-.\"causes
-.\".I mdadm
-.\"to create devices in
-.\".B /dev/md/
-.\"it will also create symlinks from
-.\".B /dev/
-.\"with names starting with
-.\".B md
-.\"or
-.\".BR md_ .
-.\"Use
-.\".B \-\-symlink=no
-.\"to suppress this, or
-.\".B \-\-symlink=yes
-.\"to enforce this even if it is suppressing
-.\".IR mdadm.conf .
-.\"
-.XX
-
 .TP
 .BR \-a ", " "\-\-add"
 This option can be used in Grow mode in two cases.