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.
Official website
RAID arrays — The Linux Kernel documentation
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- Official website
- docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/md.html
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- inception
- 2001-00-00
- source code repository URL
- git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
- software version identifier
- 4.2
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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.
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