On Thursday February 20, derek@cynicism.com wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Neil Brown wrote: > > > - If the config file is called 'partitions' then it will be treated > > as though it contained exactly 'device partitions' so e.g. > > mdadm -Ebsc partitions > > will fill all raid partitions easily. > > So the difference between this and mdadm -Dbs is that it generates config > entries for arrays that are online, but -Ebcs partitions gets a list of > all the block devices from /proc/partitions and generates array lines > based on those. Yep. > > How come -Dbs lists only num-device, and UUID while -Ebsc lists both of > those as well as the devices list? > Because the information is trivially and obviously available when doing -E, but not quite so obviously available when doing -D. Still it shouldn't be hard to add that info. I will put it on my todo list for 1.1. > This -Ebsc partitions is a nice feature by the way. > Thanks, It's the result of user feed back. I like to encourage user feedback!! NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
