From e0f31f50be063c319309ce680ac48f29a5db5589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Charest Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:21:40 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown --- mdadm.8 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8 index 06d2af8..41722a6 100644 --- a/mdadm.8 +++ b/mdadm.8 @@ -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