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Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata. 

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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Pascal Charest 2008-06-26 09:21:40 +10:00 committed by Neil Brown
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@ -1360,6 +1360,14 @@ is being created, then the name
.B home
will be used.
When creating a partition based array, using
.I mdadm
with version-1.x metadata, the partition type should be set to
.B 0xDA
(non fs-data). This type selection allows for greater precision since
using any other [RAID auto-detect (0xFD) or a GNU/Linux partition (0x83)],
might create problems in the event of array recovery through a live cdrom.
A new array will normally get a randomly assigned 128bit UUID which is
very likely to be unique. If you have a specific need, you can choose
a UUID for the array by giving the