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Merging upstream version 4.2+20230313.

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
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Daniel Baumann 2025-02-14 06:05:07 +01:00
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@ -837,6 +837,22 @@ array is resynced at creation. From Linux version 3.0,
.B \-\-assume\-clean
can be used with that command to avoid the automatic resync.
.TP
.BR \-\-write-zeroes
When creating an array, send write zeroes requests to all the block
devices. This should zero the data area on all disks such that the
initial sync is not necessary and, if successfull, will behave
as if
.B \-\-assume\-clean
was specified.
.IP
This is intended for use with devices that have hardware offload for
zeroing, but despite this zeroing can still take several minutes for
large disks. Thus a message is printed before and after zeroing and
each disk is zeroed in parallel with the others.
.IP
This is only meaningful with --create.
.TP
.BR \-\-backup\-file=
This is needed when
@ -1370,7 +1386,7 @@ and
.B layout\-alternate
options are for RAID0 arrays with non-uniform devices size that were in
use before Linux 5.4. If the array was being used with Linux 3.13 or
earlier, then to assemble the array on a new kernel,
earlier, then to assemble the array on a new kernel,
.B \-\-update=layout\-original
must be given. If the array was created and used with a kernel from Linux 3.14 to
Linux 5.3, then