-''' Copyright Neil Brown and others.
-''' This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-''' it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-''' the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-''' (at your option) any later version.
-''' See file COPYING in distribution for details.
+.\" Copyright Neil Brown and others.
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
.TH MD 4
.SH NAME
md \- Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID
.B md
driver provides virtual devices that are created from one or more
independent underlying devices. This array of devices often contains
-redundancy, and hence the acronym RAID which stands for a Redundant
-Array of Independent Devices.
+redundancy and the devices are often disk drives, hence the acronym RAID
+which stands for a Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
.PP
.B md
supports RAID levels