config: new option to suppress adding bad block lists.

[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / mdadm.conf.5

diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5
index 61267b6186e242fa5fdba0a373ddbfa2d16aa964..18512cb0ec7edfe32d0af3ae7f4700c4b8c9cf2b 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.conf.5
+++ b/mdadm.conf.5
@@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ line and it should be give only one program.
 .B CREATE
 The
 .B create
-line gives default values to be used when creating arrays and device entries for
-arrays.
+line gives default values to be used when creating arrays, new members
+of arrays, and device entries for arrays.
 These include:
 
 .RS 4
@@ -365,6 +365,16 @@ is given, then non-numeric
 device names will not be used even if the default changes in a future
 release of
 .IR mdadm .
+
+.TP
+.B bbl=no
+By default,
+.I mdadm
+will reserve space for a bad block list (bbl) on all devices
+included in or added to any array that supports them.  Setting
+.B bbl=no
+will prevent this, so newly added devices will not have a bad
+block log.
 .RE
 
 .TP