NeilBrown: mdadm.8: improve hosthost documentation

[Martin F. Krafft]

Module: mdadm
Branch: upstream
Commit: c64ba03ae74ee23bd3ade320c9553af72dad954a
URL:    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commit;h=c64ba03ae74ee23bd3ade320c9553af72dad954a

Author: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Date:   Tue Mar  9 14:22:39 2010 +1100

mdadm.8: improve hosthost documentation

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

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 mdadm.8 |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index dda0bed..674c05f 100644
--- a/mdadm.8
+++ b/mdadm.8
@@ -1468,6 +1468,25 @@ from the superblock is used to similarly create a name in
 .B /dev/md/
 (the name will have any 'host' prefix stripped first).
 
+This behaviour can be modified by the
+.I AUTO
+line in the
+.I mdadm.conf
+configuration file.  This line can indicate that specific metadata
+type should, or should not, be automatically assembled.  If an array
+is found which is not listed in
+.I mdadm.conf
+and has a metadata format that is denied by the
+.I AUTO
+line, then it will not be assembled.
+The
+.I AUTO
+line can also request that all arrays identified as being for this
+homehost should be assembled regardless of their metadata type.
+See
+.IR mdadm.conf (5)
+for further details.
+
 .ig
 If
 .I mdadm