From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: One question about man mdadm Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:33:23 +0100 Message-ID: <5476D3C3.3000108@aei.mpg.de> References: <1267277039.5310948.1417073236902.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1267277039.5310948.1417073236902.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Xiao Ni , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi On 11/27/2014 08:27 AM, Xiao Ni wrote: > It says "See md(4) for more detail about =E2=80=99near=E2=80=99= , =E2=80=99offset=E2=80=99, and =E2=80=99far=E2=80=99" > What's md(4) mean? Where can I find the detail information about this= ? > That's just the short form of, please see man-page about md from sectio= n=20 4. On the command line man 4 md and it should show something like NAME md - Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID SYNOPSIS /dev/mdn /dev/md/n /dev/md/name DESCRIPTION The md driver provides virtual devices that are created from= =20 one or more independent underlying devices. This array of devices ofte= n=20 contains redundancy and the devices are often disk drives, hence the acronym RAID which= =20 stands for a Redundant Array of Independent Disks. [...] Alternatively, first hit with most search engines: http://linux.die.net/man/4/md Cheers Carsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html