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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:30:47 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-projects@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r219755 - projects/graid/head/sbin/geom/class/raid
Message-ID:  <201103182230.p2IMUlxf081854@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: mav
Date: Fri Mar 18 22:30:47 2011
New Revision: 219755
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219755

Log:
  Add point about Promise metadata format.

Modified:
  projects/graid/head/sbin/geom/class/raid/graid.8

Modified: projects/graid/head/sbin/geom/class/raid/graid.8
==============================================================================
--- projects/graid/head/sbin/geom/class/raid/graid.8	Fri Mar 18 21:56:39 2011	(r219754)
+++ projects/graid/head/sbin/geom/class/raid/graid.8	Fri Mar 18 22:30:47 2011	(r219755)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd March 13, 2011
+.Dd March 18, 2011
 .Dt GRAID 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -214,6 +214,15 @@ Supports configurations: RAID0 (2+ disks
 RAID10 (4 disks), CONCAT (2+ disks).
 Configurations not supported by JMicron RAID BIOS, but enforceable on your own
 risk: RAID1 (3+ disks), RAID1E (3+ disks), RAID10 (6+ disks), RAID5 (3+ disks).
+.It Promise
+The format used by Promise and AMD/ATI RAID BIOSes and FreeBSD ataraid(4)
+driver.
+Supports multiple volumes per array.
+Each disk can be split to be used by up to two arbitrary volumes.
+Supports configurations: RAID0 (2+ disks), RAID1 (2 disks),
+RAID5 (3+ disks), RAID10 (4 disks), SINGLE (1 disk), CONCAT (2+ disks).
+Configurations not supported by RAID BIOSes, but enforceable on your
+own risk: RAID1 (3+ disks), RAID10 (6+ disks).
 .It SiI
 The format used by SiliconImage RAID BIOS.
 Supports one volume per array.



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