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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2014-08-07 04:23:45 +0200 |
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| committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2014-08-07 04:23:45 +0200 |
| commit | e2efe9e7bc73307f74a4c2e2197d6d4498dd46f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d52e56150be5c309883760bdd84a17fa9a3c4ed /mdadm.conf.5 | |
| parent | md.4: replace "bad block log" with "bad block list" (diff) | |
| download | mdadm-e2efe9e7bc73307f74a4c2e2197d6d4498dd46f0.tar.xz mdadm-e2efe9e7bc73307f74a4c2e2197d6d4498dd46f0.zip | |
config: new option to suppress adding bad block lists.
CREATE bbl=no
in mdadm.conf will cause any devices added to an array
to not have a bad block list. By default they do for 1.x
metadata.
This is useful if you are suspicious of the bad-block-list
implementation.
Reported-by: Ethan Wilson <ethan.wilson@shiftmail.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mdadm.conf.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | mdadm.conf.5 | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5 index 61267b61..18512cb0 100644 --- a/mdadm.conf.5 +++ b/mdadm.conf.5 @@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ line and it should be give only one program. .B CREATE The .B create -line gives default values to be used when creating arrays and device entries for -arrays. +line gives default values to be used when creating arrays, new members +of arrays, and device entries for arrays. These include: .RS 4 @@ -365,6 +365,16 @@ is given, then non-numeric device names will not be used even if the default changes in a future release of .IR mdadm . + +.TP +.B bbl=no +By default, +.I mdadm +will reserve space for a bad block list (bbl) on all devices +included in or added to any array that supports them. Setting +.B bbl=no +will prevent this, so newly added devices will not have a bad +block log. .RE .TP |