Create: cleanup after failed create in duplicated array member case

[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / mdadm.8

diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index dda0bed453b6a03fa8b4851c73917e16e79fcf38..4edfc41232c59ffaa008d3d624bd0ca0e321a27e 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.8
+++ b/mdadm.8
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\"   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 MDADM 8 "" v3.1.1
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v3.1.2
 .SH NAME
 mdadm \- manage MD devices
 .I aka
@@ -1468,6 +1468,25 @@ from the superblock is used to similarly create a name in
 .B /dev/md/
 (the name will have any 'host' prefix stripped first).
 
+This behaviour can be modified by the
+.I AUTO
+line in the
+.I mdadm.conf
+configuration file.  This line can indicate that specific metadata
+type should, or should not, be automatically assembled.  If an array
+is found which is not listed in
+.I mdadm.conf
+and has a metadata format that is denied by the
+.I AUTO
+line, then it will not be assembled.
+The
+.I AUTO
+line can also request that all arrays identified as being for this
+homehost should be assembled regardless of their metadata type.
+See
+.IR mdadm.conf (5)
+for further details.
+
 .ig
 If
 .I mdadm