also sprach lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> [2009.07.09.2204 +0200]:
> -a, --auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN}
> Instruct mdadm to create the device file if needed,
> possibly allocating an unused minor number. "md" causes
> a non-partitionable array to be used. "mdp", "part" or
> "p" causes a partitionable array (2.6 and later) to be
> used.
> "
>
> You can still decide if you want a partitionable or non-partitionable
> RAID, thus not all RAIDs are partitionable since kernel
> 2.6.29. Unfortunately, the man page doesn't seem to say what the
> default is for the partitionability of the RAID.
mdadm has, uh, conservative maintenance. mdp is no longer needed.
"non-partitionable" arrays will be partitionable with newer kernels.
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