Pascal Charest: Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1. x metadata.

[Martin F. Krafft]

Module: mdadm
Branch: master
Commit: 5b53734ed8d9648205957b1b555a4e45fdcb510d
URL:    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commit;h=5b53734ed8d9648205957b1b555a4e45fdcb510d

Author: Pascal Charest <pascal.charest at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 14 16:20:51 2008 +1100

Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb at suse.de>

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 mdadm.8 |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index f5afec1..d17b77f 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