MDADM.CONF(5)

NAME
mdadm.conf - configuration for management of Software Raid with mdadm

SYNOPSIS
/etc/mdadm.conf

DESCRIPTION

mdadm is a tools for creating an managing RAID devices using the md driver in Linux.

Some common tasks, such as assembling all arrays, can be simplified by describing the devices and array in this configuations file.

  SYNTAX
The file should be seen as a collection of words separated by white space (space, tab, or newline). Any word that being with a hash sign (#) starts a comment and that word together with the remainder of the line are ignored. Any line that start with white space (space or tab) is treated as though it were a continuation of the previous line. Empty lines are ignored, but otherwise each (non continuation) line must start with a keyword as listed below. The key words are case insensitve and can be abbreviated to 3 characters. The keywords are:

DEVICE
    A device line lists the devices (whole devices or partitions) that might contain a component of an MD array. When looking for the components of an array, mdadm will scan these devices and no others. The device line may contain a number of different devices (separated by spaces) and each device name can contain wild cards as defined by glob(7). Also, there may be several device lines present in the file.

ARRAY

SEE ALSO
mdadm (8), md (4).