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Man page update for containers etc. 

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown 2008-11-04 20:51:12 +11:00
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@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ md devices,
.BR RAID6 ,
.BR RAID10 ,
.BR MULTIPATH ,
.BR FAULTY ,
and
.BR FAULTY .
.BR CONTAINER .
.B MULTIPATH
is not a Software RAID mechanism, but does involve
@ -50,6 +51,19 @@ each device is a path to one common physical storage device.
is also not true RAID, and it only involves one device. It
provides a layer over a true device that can be used to inject faults.
B CONTAINER
is different again. A CONTAINER is a collection of devices that are
managed as a set. This is similar to the set of devices connected to
a hardware RAID controller. The set of devices may contain a number
of different RAID arrays each utilising some (or all) blocks from a
number of the devices in the set. For example, two devices in a 5-device set
might form a RAID1 used the whole devices. The remaining three might
have a RAID5 over the first half of each device, and a RAID0 over the
second half.
With a CONTAINER, there is one set of metadata the describes
.\".I mdadm
.\"is a program that can be used to create, manage, and monitor
.\"MD devices. As