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man mdadm: add information for MDADM_EXPERIMENTAL flag 

Update man for MDADM_EXPERIMENTAL flag.

Minor revisions by Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com> and Neil Brown.

Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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@ -2229,6 +2229,23 @@ in a container can be converted between levels where those levels are
supported by the container, and the conversion is on of those listed
above.
Grow functionality (e.g. expand a number of raid devices) for Intel's
IMSM container format has an experimental status. It is guarded by the
.B MDADM_EXPERIMENTAL
environment variable which must be set to '1' for a GROW command to
succeed.
This is for the following reasons:
.IP 1.
Intel's native IMSM check-pointing is not fully implemented yet.
This causes IMSM incompatibility during the grow process: an array
which is growing cannot roam between Microsoft Windows(R) and Linux
systems.
.IP 2.
Interrupting a grow operation is not recommended, because it
has not been fully tested for Intel's IMSM container format yet.
.SS SIZE CHANGES
Normally when an array is built the "size" is taken from the smallest
of the drives. If all the small drives in an arrays are, one at a