Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

On Fri, June 4, 2004 7:29, Neil Brown said:

  - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
    and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary
    device files after allocating an unused array number.

Neil,

I am interpreting this to mean that I can create, for example, a large (e.g. 1TB) RAID5
array and create smaller partitions (/home, /usr, etc) on top of the RAID5 array? Is
this correct?

Where can I read more about this?

Thanks,

R.
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