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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-05-01 19:00:41 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-05-01 19:00:41 +0000 |
commit | 75961af1742d74010c61ebe7c30e2d82161143e5 (patch) | |
tree | c25b058b27a6fd797266be828763cd735d6ec729 /share | |
parent | b40f1addf4460a692f6fa0e2e83000ef6c624a97 (diff) |
be precise about which archs need to use 4.2bsd (sparc), and move that
note to caveats;
requested by bsd
confirmed by marco; ok todd
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/softraid.4 | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 b/share/man/man4/softraid.4 index 743cb15a50d..bf569612e82 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/softraid.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.20 2009/04/29 07:02:02 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.21 2009/05/01 19:00:40 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marco Peereboom <marco@OpenBSD.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 29 2009 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 1 2009 $ .Dt SOFTRAID 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,13 +57,7 @@ A is a partition or storage area of fstype .Dq RAID . .Xr disklabel 8 -can be used to alter the fstype, -though some platforms, -such as SUN, -are not capable of using this -and should use fstype -.Dq 4.2BSD -instead. +is used to alter the fstype. .Pp Currently .Nm @@ -163,6 +157,11 @@ Currently there is no automated mechanism to recover from failed disks. .Pp There is no boot support at this time for any disciplines. .Pp +Sparc hardware needs to use fstype +.Dq 4.2BSD +instead of +.Dq RAID . +.Pp Certain RAID levels can protect against some data loss due to component failure. RAID is |