mdadm.conf.5

   1 .TH MDADM.CONF 5
   2 .SH NAME
   3 mdadm.conf \- configuration for management of Software Raid with mdadm
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 /etc/mdadm.conf
   6 .SH DESCRIPTION
   7 .PP
   8 .B mdadm
   9 is a tools for creating an managing RAID devices using the
  10 .B md
  11 driver in Linux.
  12 .PP
  13 Some common tasks, such as assembling all arrays, can be simplified
  14 by describing the devices and array in this configuations file.
  15
  16 .SS SYNTAX
  17 The file should be seen as a collection of words separated by white
  18 space (space, tab, or newline).
  19 Any word that being with a hash sign (#) starts a comment and that
  20 word together with the remainder of the line are ignored.
  21
  22 Any line that start with white space (space or tab) is treated as
  23 though it were a continuation of the previous line.
  24
  25 Empty lines are ignored, but otherwise each (non continuation) line
  26 must start with a keyword as listed below.  The key words are case
  27 insensitve and can be abbreviated to 3 characters.
  28
  29 The keywords are:
  30 .TP
  31 .B DEVICE
  32 A
  33 .B device
  34 line lists the devices (whole devices or partitions) that might contain
  35 a component of an MD array.  When looking for the components of an
  36 array,
  37 .B mdadm
  38 will scan these devices and no others.
  39
  40 The
  41 .B device
  42 line may contain a number of different devices (separated by spaces)
  43 and each device name can contain wild cards as defined by
  44 .BR glob (7).
  45
  46 Also, there may be several device lines present in the file.
  47
  48 .TP
  49 .B ARRAY
  50
  51 .SH SEE ALSO
  52 mdadm (8),
  53 md (4).
  54