.I mdadm
to look for assembled CONTAINER arrays and included them as a source
for assembling further arrays.
-.PP
+
The word
.I partitions
will cause
.br
DEV /dev/sd*
.br
-DEVICE /dev/discs/disc*/disc
+DEVICE /dev/disk/by-path/pci*
.br
DEVICE partitions
The ARRAY lines identify actual arrays. The second word on the line
may be the name of the device where the array is normally
assembled, such as
-.BR /dev/md1 .
+.B /dev/md1
+or
+.BR /dev/md/backup .
+If the name does not start with a slash
+.RB (' / '),
+it is treated as being in
+.BR /dev/md/ .
Alternately the word
.B <ignore>
(complete with angle brackets) can be given in which case any array
which matches the rest of the line will never be automatically assembled.
If no device name is given,
.I mdadm
-will use various heuristic to determine an appropriate name.
-.PP
+will use various heuristics to determine an appropriate name.
+
Subsequent words identify the array, or identify the array as a member
of a group. If multiple identities are given,
then a component device must match ALL identities to be considered a
match. Each identity word has a tag, and equals sign, and some value.
The tags are:
-
.RS 4
.TP
.B uuid=
.TP
.B spares=
The value is a number of spare devices to expect the array to have.
+The sole use of this keyword and value is as follows:
.B mdadm \-\-monitor
will report an array if it is found to have fewer than this number of
spares when
.TP
.B auto=
-This option declares to
+This option is rarely needed with mdadm-3.0, particularly if use with
+the Linux kernel v2.6.28 or later.
+It tells
.I mdadm
-that it should try to create the device file of the array if it
-doesn't already exist, or exists but with the wrong device number.
+whether to use partitionable array or non-partitionable arrays and,
+in the absence of
+.IR udev ,
+how many partition devices to create. From 2.6.28 all md array
+devices are partitionable, hence this option is not needed.
The value of this option can be "yes" or "md" to indicate that a
traditional, non-partitionable md array should be created, or "mdp",
value given can be either a path name in /dev, or a UUID of the
container array.
-.IP
+.TP
.B member=
Specify that this array is a member array of some container. Each
type of container has some way to enumerate member arrays, often a
simple sequence number. The value identifies which member of a
-container the array is. It will usually accompany a 'container=' word.
+container the array is. It will usually accompany a "container=" word.
.RE
.TP
.B homehost
line gives a default value for the
.B --homehost=
-option to mdadm. There should be exactly one other word on the line.
-It should either exactly
+option to mdadm. There should normally be only one other word on the line.
+It should either be a host name, or one of the special words
.B <system>
-or a host name.
+and
+.BR <ignore> .
If
.B <system>
is given, then the
.BR gethostname ( 2 )
systemcall is used to get the host name.
-When arrays are created, this host name will be stored in the
-metadata. When arrays are assembled using auto-assembly, only arrays
-with this host name stored in the metadata will be considered.
+If
+.B <ignore>
+is given, then a flag is set so that when arrays are being
+auto-assembled the checking of the recorded
+.I homehost
+is disabled.
+If
+.B <ignore>
+is given it is also possible to give an explicit name which will be
+used when creating arrays. This is the only case when there can be
+more that one other word on the
+.B HOMEHOST
+line.
+
+When arrays are created, this host name will be stored in the
+metadata. When arrays are assembled using auto-assembly, arrays which
+do not record the correct homehost name in their metadata will be
+assembled using a "foreign" name. A "foreign" name alway ends with a
+digit string preceded by an underscore to differentiate it
+from any possible local name. e.g.
+.B /dev/md/1_1
+or
+.BR /dev/md/home_0 .
.TP
.B AUTO
A list of names of metadata format can be given, each preceded by a
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