mdadm is a Linux utility used to manage and monitor software RAID devices. It is used in modern Linux distributions in place of older software RAID utilities...
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drive mkdir or md, "make directory" command Multiple device, as in Linux mdadm device driver Sega Genesis or Mega Drive, a video game console Mean absolute...
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the number of drives, while n#, f#, and o# are given as parameters to mdadm's --layout option. Linux software RAID (Linux kernel's md driver) also supports...
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mapper, with dmraid tool, for RAID 0, 1 and 10. And Linux MD RAID, with mdadm tool, for RAID 0, 1, 10, and 5. Set up of the RAID volumes must be done...
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programs have had to resort to trickery, such as using /dev/.udev, /dev/.mdadm, /dev/.systemd or /dev/.mount directories, even though the device directory...
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Hardware RAID systems use an onboard nonvolatile cache for this purpose. mdadm can use a dedicated journaling device (to avoid performance penalty, typically...
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disk arrays, or in software within the operating system (such as Linux mdadm and device mapper). Additionally, file systems like Btrfs or ZFS provide...
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(FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD) Yes No Cramfs Yes No IBM JFS2 Yes No Linux RAID (mdadm) Yes No Linux Swap 1 and 2 Yes No LVM and LVM2 Yes No Novell Storage Services...
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combined into one or more logical volumes using a volume manager like LVM or mdadm, or a device-spanning filesystem like btrfs; such volumes are usually called...
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ext4 file system". Red Hat. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2015. "mdadm(8) – Linux man page". linux.die.net. Retrieved 8 February 2015. "Linux kernel...
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format that is compatible with the mdraid subsystem in the Linux kernel. The mdadm command-line utility is a part of the mdraid subsystem. "Common RAID Disk...
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first: fsck /usr The following example checks the Linux JFS file system on a mdadm software RAID device: fsck -t jfs /dev/md0 List of Unix commands List of...
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chkdsk Repair-Volume Create software raid ? atacontrol, gmirror, zfs create mdadm -C ? ? diskutil appleRAID metainit, zpool create diskpart (mirror only)...
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because during initialization, most RAID management utilities (e.g. Linux's mdadm) write to all blocks on the devices to ensure that checksums (or drive-to-drive...
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pseudo-hardware controller, not a true hardware RAID controller. Linux mdadm simply holds and lets the drive complete its recovery – however, the default...
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