+.\" Copyright Neil Brown and others.
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.TH MD 4
.SH NAME
-md \- Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software Raid
+md \- Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI /dev/md n
.br
.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
-support RAID levels 1 (mirroring) 4 (striped array with parity device) and 5
-(striped array with distributed parity information. If a single underlying
-device fails while using one of these level, the array will continue
-to function.
+supports RAID levels
+1 (mirroring),
+4 (striped array with parity device),
+5 (striped array with distributed parity information),
+6 (striped array with distributed dual redundancy information), and
+10 (striped and mirrored).
+If some number of underlying devices fails while using one of these
+levels, the array will continue to function; this number is one for
+RAID levels 4 and 5, two for RAID level 6, and all but one (N-1) for
+RAID level 1, and dependent on configuration for level 10.
.PP
.B md
also supports a number of pseudo RAID (non-redundant) configurations
-including RAID0 (striped array), LINEAR (catenated array) and
-MULTIPATH (a set of different interfaces to the same device).
+including RAID0 (striped array), LINEAR (catenated array),
+MULTIPATH (a set of different interfaces to the same device),
+and FAULTY (a layer over a single device into which errors can be injected).
.SS MD SUPER BLOCK
-With the exception of Legacy Arrays described below, each device that
-is incorporated into an MD array has a
-.I super block
-written towards the end of the device. This superblock records
-information about the structure and state of the array so that the
-array can be reliably re-assembled after a shutdown.
-
-The superblock is 4K long and is written into a 64K aligned block that
+Each device in an array may have a
+.I superblock
+which records information about the structure and state of the array.
+This allows the array to be reliably re-assembled after a shutdown.
+
+From Linux kernel version 2.6.10,
+.B md
+provides support for two different formats of this superblock, and
+other formats can be added. Prior to this release, only one format is
+supported.
+
+The common format \(em known as version 0.90 \(em has
+a superblock that is 4K long and is written into a 64K aligned block that
starts at least 64K and less than 128K from the end of the device
(i.e. to get the address of the superblock round the size of the
device down to a multiple of 64K and then subtract 64K).
The available size of each device is the amount of space before the
super block, so between 64K and 128K is lost when a device in
incorporated into an MD array.
+This superblock stores multi-byte fields in a processor-dependent
+manner, so arrays cannot easily be moved between computers with
+different processors.
+
+The new format \(em known as version 1 \(em has a superblock that is
+normally 1K long, but can be longer. It is normally stored between 8K
+and 12K from the end of the device, on a 4K boundary, though
+variations can be stored at the start of the device (version 1.1) or 4K from
+the start of the device (version 1.2).
+This superblock format stores multibyte data in a
+processor-independent format and supports up to hundreds of
+component devices (version 0.90 only supports 28).
The superblock contains, among other things:
.TP
LEVEL
The manner in which the devices are arranged into the array
-(linear, raid0, raid1, raid4, raid5, multipath).
+(linear, raid0, raid1, raid4, raid5, raid10, multipath).
.TP
UUID
a 128 bit Universally Unique Identifier that identifies the array that
-this device is part of.
-
-.SS LEGACY ARRAYS
+contains this device.
+
+When a version 0.90 array is being reshaped (e.g. adding extra devices
+to a RAID5), the version number is temporarily set to 0.91. This
+ensures that if the reshape process is stopped in the middle (e.g. by
+a system crash) and the machine boots into an older kernel that does
+not support reshaping, then the array will not be assembled (which
+would cause data corruption) but will be left untouched until a kernel
+that can complete the reshape processes is used.
+
+.SS ARRAYS WITHOUT SUPERBLOCKS
+While it is usually best to create arrays with superblocks so that
+they can be assembled reliably, there are some circumstances when an
+array without superblocks is preferred. These include:
+.TP
+LEGACY ARRAYS
Early versions of the
.B md
-driver only supported Linear and Raid0 configurations and so
-did not use an MD superblock (as there is not state that needs to be
-recorded). While it is strongly recommended that all newly created
-arrays utilise a superblock to help ensure that they are assembled
-properly, the
+driver only supported Linear and Raid0 configurations and did not use
+a superblock (which is less critical with these configurations).
+While such arrays should be rebuilt with superblocks if possible,
.B md
-driver still supports legacy linear and raid0 md arrays that
-do not have a superblock.
+continues to support them.
+.TP
+FAULTY
+Being a largely transparent layer over a different device, the FAULTY
+personality doesn't gain anything from having a superblock.
+.TP
+MULTIPATH
+It is often possible to detect devices which are different paths to
+the same storage directly rather than having a distinctive superblock
+written to the device and searched for on all paths. In this case,
+a MULTIPATH array with no superblock makes sense.
+.TP
+RAID1
+In some configurations it might be desired to create a raid1
+configuration that does not use a superblock, and to maintain the state of
+the array elsewhere. While not encouraged for general us, it does
+have special-purpose uses and is supported.
.SS LINEAR
A linear array simply catenates the available space on each
-drive together to form one large virtual drive.
+drive to form one large virtual drive.
One advantage of this arrangement over the more common RAID0
arrangement is that the array may be reconfigured at a later time with
-an extra drive and so the array is made bigger without disturbing the
-data that is on the array. However this cannot be done on a live
+an extra drive, so the array is made bigger without disturbing the
+data that is on the array. This can even be done on a live
array.
+If a chunksize is given with a LINEAR array, the usable space on each
+device is rounded down to a multiple of this chunksize.
.SS RAID0
.B "Chunk Size"
which must be a power of two, and at least 4 kibibytes.
-The RAID0 driver places the first chunk of the array to the first
+The RAID0 driver assigns the first chunk of the array to the first
device, the second chunk to the second device, and so on until all
-drives have been assigned one chuck. This collection of chunks forms
+drives have been assigned one chunk. This collection of chunks forms
a
.BR stripe .
-Further chunks are gathered into stripes in the same way which are
+Further chunks are gathered into stripes in the same way, and are
assigned to the remaining space in the drives.
-If device in the array are not all the same size, then once the
-smallest devices has been exhausted, the RAID0 driver starts
+If devices in the array are not all the same size, then once the
+smallest device has been exhausted, the RAID0 driver starts
collecting chunks into smaller stripes that only span the drives which
still have remaining space.
.SS RAID1
A RAID1 array is also known as a mirrored set (though mirrors tend to
-provide reflect images, which RAID1 does not) or a plex.
+provide reflected images, which RAID1 does not) or a plex.
Once initialised, each device in a RAID1 array contains exactly the
same data. Changes are written to all devices in parallel. Data is
All devices in a RAID1 array should be the same size. If they are
not, then only the amount of space available on the smallest device is
-used. Any extra space on other devices is wasted.
+used (any extra space on other devices is wasted).
+
+Note that the read balancing done by the driver does not make the RAID1
+performance profile be the same as for RAID0; a single stream of
+sequential input will not be accelerated (e.g. a single dd), but
+multiple sequential streams or a random workload will use more than one
+spindle. In theory, having an N-disk RAID1 will allow N sequential
+threads to read from all disks.
.SS RAID4
A RAID4 array is like a RAID0 array with an extra device for storing
-parity. Unlike RAID0, RAID4 also requires that all stripes span all
+parity. This device is the last of the active devices in the
+array. Unlike RAID0, RAID4 also requires that all stripes span all
drives, so extra space on devices that are larger than the smallest is
wasted.
-When any block in a RAID4 array is modified the parity block for that
+When any block in a RAID4 array is modified, the parity block for that
stripe (i.e. the block in the parity device at the same device offset
as the stripe) is also modified so that the parity block always
-contains the "parity" for the whole stripe. i.e. its contents is
+contains the "parity" for the whole stripe. I.e. its content is
equivalent to the result of performing an exclusive-or operation
between all the data blocks in the stripe.
RAID5 is very similar to RAID4. The difference is that the parity
blocks for each stripe, instead of being on a single device, are
distributed across all devices. This allows more parallelism when
-writing as two different block updates will quite possibly affect
+writing, as two different block updates will quite possibly affect
parity blocks on different devices so there is less contention.
-This also allows more parallelism when reading as read requests are
+This also allows more parallelism when reading, as read requests are
distributed over all the devices in the array instead of all but one.
-.SS MUTIPATH
+.SS RAID6
+
+RAID6 is similar to RAID5, but can handle the loss of any \fItwo\fP
+devices without data loss. Accordingly, it requires N+2 drives to
+store N drives worth of data.
+
+The performance for RAID6 is slightly lower but comparable to RAID5 in
+normal mode and single disk failure mode. It is very slow in dual
+disk failure mode, however.
+
+.SS RAID10
+
+RAID10 provides a combination of RAID1 and RAID0, and is sometimes known
+as RAID1+0. Every datablock is duplicated some number of times, and
+the resulting collection of datablocks are distributed over multiple
+drives.
+
+When configuring a RAID10 array, it is necessary to specify the number
+of replicas of each data block that are required (this will normally
+be 2) and whether the replicas should be 'near', 'offset' or 'far'.
+(Note that the 'offset' layout is only available from 2.6.18).
+
+When 'near' replicas are chosen, the multiple copies of a given chunk
+are laid out consecutively across the stripes of the array, so the two
+copies of a datablock will likely be at the same offset on two
+adjacent devices.
+
+When 'far' replicas are chosen, the multiple copies of a given chunk
+are laid out quite distant from each other. The first copy of all
+data blocks will be striped across the early part of all drives in
+RAID0 fashion, and then the next copy of all blocks will be striped
+across a later section of all drives, always ensuring that all copies
+of any given block are on different drives.
+
+The 'far' arrangement can give sequential read performance equal to
+that of a RAID0 array, but at the cost of reduced write performance.
+
+When 'offset' replicas are chosen, the multiple copies of a given
+chunk are laid out on consecutive drives and at consecutive offsets.
+Effectively each stripe is duplicated and the copies are offset by one
+device. This should give similar read characteristics to 'far' if a
+suitably large chunk size is used, but without as much seeking for
+writes.
+
+It should be noted that the number of devices in a RAID10 array need
+not be a multiple of the number of replica of each data block; however,
+there must be at least as many devices as replicas.
+
+If, for example, an array is created with 5 devices and 2 replicas,
+then space equivalent to 2.5 of the devices will be available, and
+every block will be stored on two different devices.
+
+Finally, it is possible to have an array with both 'near' and 'far'
+copies. If an array is configured with 2 near copies and 2 far
+copies, then there will be a total of 4 copies of each block, each on
+a different drive. This is an artifact of the implementation and is
+unlikely to be of real value.
+
+.SS MULTIPATH
MULTIPATH is not really a RAID at all as there is only one real device
in a MULTIPATH md array. However there are multiple access points
(paths) to this device, and one of these paths might fail, so there
are some similarities.
-A MULTIPATH array is composed of a number of different devices, often
-fibre channel interfaces, that all refer the the same real device.
-If one of these interfaces fails (e.g. due to cable problems), the
-multipath driver to attempt to redirect requests to another
-interface.
-
+A MULTIPATH array is composed of a number of logically different
+devices, often fibre channel interfaces, that all refer the the same
+real device. If one of these interfaces fails (e.g. due to cable
+problems), the multipath driver will attempt to redirect requests to
+another interface.
+
+.SS FAULTY
+The FAULTY md module is provided for testing purposes. A faulty array
+has exactly one component device and is normally assembled without a
+superblock, so the md array created provides direct access to all of
+the data in the component device.
+
+The FAULTY module may be requested to simulate faults to allow testing
+of other md levels or of filesystems. Faults can be chosen to trigger
+on read requests or write requests, and can be transient (a subsequent
+read/write at the address will probably succeed) or persistent
+(subsequent read/write of the same address will fail). Further, read
+faults can be "fixable" meaning that they persist until a write
+request at the same address.
+
+Fault types can be requested with a period. In this case, the fault
+will recur repeatedly after the given number of requests of the
+relevant type. For example if persistent read faults have a period of
+100, then every 100th read request would generate a fault, and the
+faulty sector would be recorded so that subsequent reads on that
+sector would also fail.
+
+There is a limit to the number of faulty sectors that are remembered.
+Faults generated after this limit is exhausted are treated as
+transient.
+
+The list of faulty sectors can be flushed, and the active list of
+failure modes can be cleared.
.SS UNCLEAN SHUTDOWN
-When changes are made to an RAID1, RAID4, or RAID5 array there is a
-possibility of inconsistency for short periods of time as each update
-requires are least two block to be written to different devices, and
-these writes probably wont happen at exactly the same time.
-This is a system with one of these arrays is shutdown in the middle of
-a write operation (e.g. due to power failure), the array may not be
-consistent.
+When changes are made to a RAID1, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, or RAID10 array
+there is a possibility of inconsistency for short periods of time as
+each update requires at least two block to be written to different
+devices, and these writes probably won't happen at exactly the same
+time. Thus if a system with one of these arrays is shutdown in the
+middle of a write operation (e.g. due to power failure), the array may
+not be consistent.
-The handle this situation, the md driver marks an array as "dirty"
+To handle this situation, the md driver marks an array as "dirty"
before writing any data to it, and marks it as "clean" when the array
-is being disabled, e.g. at shutdown.
-If the md driver finds an array to be dirty at startup, it proceeds to
-correct any possibly inconsistency. For RAID1, this involves copying
-the contents of the first drive onto all other drives.
-For RAID4 or RAID5 this involves recalculating the parity for each
-stripe and making sure that the parity block has the correct data.
-
-If a RAID4 or RAID5 array is degraded (missing one drive) when it is
-restarted after an unclean shutdown, it cannot recalculate parity, and
-so it is possible that data might be undetectably corrupted.
-The md driver currently
+is being disabled, e.g. at shutdown. If the md driver finds an array
+to be dirty at startup, it proceeds to correct any possibly
+inconsistency. For RAID1, this involves copying the contents of the
+first drive onto all other drives. For RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 this
+involves recalculating the parity for each stripe and making sure that
+the parity block has the correct data. For RAID10 it involves copying
+one of the replicas of each block onto all the others. This process,
+known as "resynchronising" or "resync" is performed in the background.
+The array can still be used, though possibly with reduced performance.
+
+If a RAID4, RAID5 or RAID6 array is degraded (missing at least one
+drive, two for RAID6) when it is restarted after an unclean shutdown, it cannot
+recalculate parity, and so it is possible that data might be
+undetectably corrupted. The 2.4 md driver
.B does not
-alert the operator to this condition. It should probably fail to
-start an array in this condition without manual intervention.
+alert the operator to this condition. The 2.6 md driver will fail to
+start an array in this condition without manual intervention, though
+this behaviour can be overridden by a kernel parameter.
.SS RECOVERY
-If the md driver detects any error on a device in a RAID1, RAID4, or
-RAID5 array, it immediately disables that device (marking it as faulty)
-and continues operation on the remaining devices. If there is a spare
-drive, the driver will start recreating on one of the spare drives the
-data what was on that failed drive, either by copying a working drive
-in a RAID1 configuration, or by doing calculations with the parity
-block on RAID4 and RAID5.
-
-Why this recovery process is happening, the md driver will monitor
+If the md driver detects a write error on a device in a RAID1, RAID4,
+RAID5, RAID6, or RAID10 array, it immediately disables that device
+(marking it as faulty) and continues operation on the remaining
+devices. If there are spare drives, the driver will start recreating
+on one of the spare drives the data which was on that failed drive,
+either by copying a working drive in a RAID1 configuration, or by
+doing calculations with the parity block on RAID4, RAID5 or RAID6, or
+by finding and copying originals for RAID10.
+
+In kernels prior to about 2.6.15, a read error would cause the same
+effect as a write error. In later kernels, a read-error will instead
+cause md to attempt a recovery by overwriting the bad block. i.e. it
+will find the correct data from elsewhere, write it over the block
+that failed, and then try to read it back again. If either the write
+or the re-read fail, md will treat the error the same way that a write
+error is treated, and will fail the whole device.
+
+While this recovery process is happening, the md driver will monitor
accesses to the array and will slow down the rate of recovery if other
activity is happening, so that normal access to the array will not be
unduly affected. When no other activity is happening, the recovery
.B speed_limit_max
control files mentioned below.
+.SS BITMAP WRITE-INTENT LOGGING
+
+From Linux 2.6.13,
+.I md
+supports a bitmap based write-intent log. If configured, the bitmap
+is used to record which blocks of the array may be out of sync.
+Before any write request is honoured, md will make sure that the
+corresponding bit in the log is set. After a period of time with no
+writes to an area of the array, the corresponding bit will be cleared.
+
+This bitmap is used for two optimisations.
+
+Firstly, after an unclean shutdown, the resync process will consult
+the bitmap and only resync those blocks that correspond to bits in the
+bitmap that are set. This can dramatically reduce resync time.
+
+Secondly, when a drive fails and is removed from the array, md stops
+clearing bits in the intent log. If that same drive is re-added to
+the array, md will notice and will only recover the sections of the
+drive that are covered by bits in the intent log that are set. This
+can allow a device to be temporarily removed and reinserted without
+causing an enormous recovery cost.
+
+The intent log can be stored in a file on a separate device, or it can
+be stored near the superblocks of an array which has superblocks.
+
+It is possible to add an intent log to an active array, or remove an
+intent log if one is present.
+
+In 2.6.13, intent bitmaps are only supported with RAID1. Other levels
+with redundancy are supported from 2.6.15.
+
+.SS WRITE-BEHIND
+
+From Linux 2.6.14,
+.I md
+supports WRITE-BEHIND on RAID1 arrays.
+
+This allows certain devices in the array to be flagged as
+.IR write-mostly .
+MD will only read from such devices if there is no
+other option.
+
+If a write-intent bitmap is also provided, write requests to
+write-mostly devices will be treated as write-behind requests and md
+will not wait for writes to those requests to complete before
+reporting the write as complete to the filesystem.
+
+This allows for a RAID1 with WRITE-BEHIND to be used to mirror data
+over a slow link to a remote computer (providing the link isn't too
+slow). The extra latency of the remote link will not slow down normal
+operations, but the remote system will still have a reasonably
+up-to-date copy of all data.
+
+.SS RESTRIPING
+
+.IR Restriping ,
+also known as
+.IR Reshaping ,
+is the processes of re-arranging the data stored in each stripe into a
+new layout. This might involve changing the number of devices in the
+array (so the stripes are wider), changing the chunk size (so stripes
+are deeper or shallower), or changing the arrangement of data and
+parity (possibly changing the raid level, e.g. 1 to 5 or 5 to 6).
+
+As of Linux 2.6.17, md can reshape a raid5 array to have more
+devices. Other possibilities may follow in future kernels.
+
+During any stripe process there is a 'critical section' during which
+live data is being overwritten on disk. For the operation of
+increasing the number of drives in a raid5, this critical section
+covers the first few stripes (the number being the product of the old
+and new number of devices). After this critical section is passed,
+data is only written to areas of the array which no longer hold live
+data \(em the live data has already been located away.
+
+md is not able to ensure data preservation if there is a crash
+(e.g. power failure) during the critical section. If md is asked to
+start an array which failed during a critical section of restriping,
+it will fail to start the array.
+
+To deal with this possibility, a user-space program must
+.IP \(bu 4
+Disable writes to that section of the array (using the
+.B sysfs
+interface),
+.IP \(bu 4
+take a copy of the data somewhere (i.e. make a backup),
+.IP \(bu 4
+allow the process to continue and invalidate the backup and restore
+write access once the critical section is passed, and
+.IP \(bu 4
+provide for restoring the critical data before restarting the array
+after a system crash.
+.PP
+
+.B mdadm
+versions from 2.4 do this for growing a RAID5 array.
+
+For operations that do not change the size of the array, like simply
+increasing chunk size, or converting RAID5 to RAID6 with one extra
+device, the entire process is the critical section. In this case, the
+restripe will need to progress in stages, as a section is suspended,
+backed up,
+restriped, and released; this is not yet implemented.
+
+.SS SYSFS INTERFACE
+Each block device appears as a directory in
+.I sysfs
+(which is usually mounted at
+.BR /sys ).
+For MD devices, this directory will contain a subdirectory called
+.B md
+which contains various files for providing access to information about
+the array.
+
+This interface is documented more fully in the file
+.B Documentation/md.txt
+which is distributed with the kernel sources. That file should be
+consulted for full documentation. The following are just a selection
+of attribute files that are available.
+
+.TP
+.B md/sync_speed_min
+This value, if set, overrides the system-wide setting in
+.B /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min
+for this array only.
+Writing the value
+.B "system"
+to this file will cause the system-wide setting to have effect.
+
+.TP
+.B md/sync_speed_max
+This is the partner of
+.B md/sync_speed_min
+and overrides
+.B /proc/sys/dev/raid/spool_limit_max
+described below.
+
+.TP
+.B md/sync_action
+This can be used to monitor and control the resync/recovery process of
+MD.
+In particular, writing "check" here will cause the array to read all
+data block and check that they are consistent (e.g. parity is correct,
+or all mirror replicas are the same). Any discrepancies found are
+.B NOT
+corrected.
+
+A count of problems found will be stored in
+.BR md/mismatch_count .
+
+Alternately, "repair" can be written which will cause the same check
+to be performed, but any errors will be corrected.
+
+Finally, "idle" can be written to stop the check/repair process.
+
+.TP
+.B md/stripe_cache_size
+This is only available on RAID5 and RAID6. It records the size (in
+pages per device) of the stripe cache which is used for synchronising
+all write operations to the array and all read operations if the array
+is degraded. The default is 256. Valid values are 17 to 32768.
+Increasing this number can increase performance in some situations, at
+some cost in system memory. Note, setting this value too high can
+result in an "out of memory" condition for the system.
+
+memory_consumed = system_page_size * nr_disks * stripe_cache_size
+
+.TP
+.B md/preread_bypass_threshold
+This is only available on RAID5 and RAID6. This variable sets the
+number of times MD will service a full-stripe-write before servicing a
+stripe that requires some "prereading". For fairness this defaults to
+1. Valid values are 0 to stripe_cache_size. Setting this to 0
+maximizes sequential-write throughput at the cost of fairness to threads
+doing small or random writes.
+
+.SS KERNEL PARAMETERS
+
+The md driver recognised several different kernel parameters.
+.TP
+.B raid=noautodetect
+This will disable the normal detection of md arrays that happens at
+boot time. If a drive is partitioned with MS-DOS style partitions,
+then if any of the 4 main partitions has a partition type of 0xFD,
+then that partition will normally be inspected to see if it is part of
+an MD array, and if any full arrays are found, they are started. This
+kernel parameter disables this behaviour.
+
+.TP
+.B raid=partitionable
+.TP
+.B raid=part
+These are available in 2.6 and later kernels only. They indicate that
+autodetected MD arrays should be created as partitionable arrays, with
+a different major device number to the original non-partitionable md
+arrays. The device number is listed as
+.I mdp
+in
+.IR /proc/devices .
+
+.TP
+.B md_mod.start_ro=1
+This tells md to start all arrays in read-only mode. This is a soft
+read-only that will automatically switch to read-write on the first
+write request. However until that write request, nothing is written
+to any device by md, and in particular, no resync or recovery
+operation is started.
+
+.TP
+.B md_mod.start_dirty_degraded=1
+As mentioned above, md will not normally start a RAID4, RAID5, or
+RAID6 that is both dirty and degraded as this situation can imply
+hidden data loss. This can be awkward if the root filesystem is
+affected. Using this module parameter allows such arrays to be started
+at boot time. It should be understood that there is a real (though
+small) risk of data corruption in this situation.
+
+.TP
+.BI md= n , dev , dev ,...
+.TP
+.BI md=d n , dev , dev ,...
+This tells the md driver to assemble
+.B /dev/md n
+from the listed devices. It is only necessary to start the device
+holding the root filesystem this way. Other arrays are best started
+once the system is booted.
+
+In 2.6 kernels, the
+.B d
+immediately after the
+.B =
+indicates that a partitionable device (e.g.
+.BR /dev/md/d0 )
+should be created rather than the original non-partitionable device.
+
+.TP
+.BI md= n , l , c , i , dev...
+This tells the md driver to assemble a legacy RAID0 or LINEAR array
+without a superblock.
+.I n
+gives the md device number,
+.I l
+gives the level, 0 for RAID0 or -1 for LINEAR,
+.I c
+gives the chunk size as a base-2 logarithm offset by twelve, so 0
+means 4K, 1 means 8K.
+.I i
+is ignored (legacy support).
.SH FILES
.TP
Contains information about the status of currently running array.
.TP
.B /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min
-A readable and writable file that reflects the current goal rebuild
+A readable and writable file that reflects the current "goal" rebuild
speed for times when non-rebuild activity is current on an array.
The speed is in Kibibytes per second, and is a per-device rate, not a
-per-array rate (which means that an array with more disc will shuffle
+per-array rate (which means that an array with more disks will shuffle
more data for a given speed). The default is 100.
.TP
.B /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
-A readable and writable file that reflects the current goal rebuild
+A readable and writable file that reflects the current "goal" rebuild
speed for times when no non-rebuild activity is current on an array.
The default is 100,000.
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