mdadm
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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 such as raidtools2 or raidtools.
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Within Vinony's link graph, mdadm is referenced by 27 other articles, and connects out to RAID, GNU General Public License and Linux kernel.
It is catalogued under topics including Free software programmed in C, Free system software and Linux file system-related software.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Official website
RAID arrays — The Linux Kernel documentation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/md.html
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- programmed in
- C
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- inception
- 2001-00-00
- operating system
- Linux
- source code repository URL
- git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
- manifestation of
- RAID
- software version identifier
- 4.2
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- Overview
- RAID configurations
- Non-RAID configurations
- Features
- Booting
- {{anchor|EXTERNAL-METADATA}}External metadata
- mdmpd
- Technical details RAID 1
- See also
- References
- External links
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 such as raidtools2 or raidtools.
mdadm is free software originally maintained by, and copyrighted to, Neil Brown of SUSE, and licensed under the terms of version 2 or later of the GNU General Public License.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mdadm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.