From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264367AbUEDNlu (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 09:41:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264369AbUEDNlu (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 09:41:50 -0400 Received: from ns.tasking.nl ([195.193.207.2]:22539 "EHLO ns.tasking.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264367AbUEDNlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 09:41:45 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Organization: Altium BV X-Face: "`*@3nW;mP[=Z(!`?W;}cn~3M5O_/vMjX&Pe!o7y?xi@;wnA&Tvx&kjv'N\P&&5Xqf{2CaT 9HXfUFg}Y/TT^?G1j26Qr[TZY%v-1A<3?zpTYD5E759Q?lEoR*U1oj[.9\yg_o.~O.$wj:t(B+Q_?D XX57?U,#b,iM$[zX'I(!'VCQM)N)x~knSj>M*@l}y9(tK\rYwdv%~+&*jV"epphm>|q~?ys:g:K#R" 2PuAzy-N9cKM Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 13:40:37 -0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The following patch documents the currently undocumented raid= kernel parameter: --- linux-2.6.5/Documentation/md.txt.orig 2003-12-18 03:59:05.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.5/Documentation/md.txt 2004-05-04 15:35:34.000000000 +0200 @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Tools that manage md devices can be foun http://www..kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/.... +Boot time assembly of RAID arrays +--------------------------------- You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command lines: @@ -11,6 +13,8 @@ for old raid arrays without persistent s for raid arrays with persistent superblocks md=,dev0,dev1,...,devn +or, to assemble a partitionable array: + md=d,dev0,dev1,...,devn md device no. = the number of the md device ... 0 means md0, @@ -34,7 +38,22 @@ A possible loadlin line (Harald Hoyer