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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-05-01 19:00:41 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-05-01 19:00:41 +0000
commit75961af1742d74010c61ebe7c30e2d82161143e5 (patch)
treec25b058b27a6fd797266be828763cd735d6ec729 /share
parentb40f1addf4460a692f6fa0e2e83000ef6c624a97 (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.417
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