From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: mdadm man page update proposed Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:04:50 +0000 Message-ID: <4970BE32.8020209@dgreaves.com> References: <6121ee740901160136l43925896v42d1cd35ab5ab724@mail.gmail.com> <3ECBDC05781B3D48ABD520A01ABF2F9B2A0E2BFB9A@SE-EX008.groupinfra.com> <20090116164502.GA31757@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> <6121ee740901160900ncb107a3m81dd55ecc79be7a5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6121ee740901160900ncb107a3m81dd55ecc79be7a5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Attila Nagy Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids Attila Nagy wrote: > On 1/16/09, Robin Hill wrote: > >> - without a ramdisk the kernel will fail to assemble arrays with 1.0+ >> superblocks. > > I'd appreciate a lot if this would be noted in the man page. Please! > You are right that some of this should be on the man page - but it is a reference document. I thing the wiki (http://linux-raid.osdl.org/) has a lot more background (and it certainly talks about auto-detect. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."