raidstart(8)

NAME
raidstart, raidstop, - command set to manage md devices.

SYNOPSIS
raidstart [options] <raiddevice>* raidstop [options] <raiddevice>*

DESCRIPTION
RAID devices are virtual devices created from two or more real block devices. This allows multiple disks to be combined into a single filesystem, possibly with automated backup and recovery. Linux RAID devices are implemented through the md device driver. If you're using the /proc filesystem, /proc/mdstat gives you informations about md devices status. Currently, Linux supports linear md devices, RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirrroring), and RAID4 and RAID5. For information on the various levels of RAID, look at http://linas.org/linux/raid.html. Avaible commands are :
raidstart : configures md (RAID) devices in the kernel, banding multiple devices into one.
raidstart : activates an md device
raidstop : turns off an md device, and unconfigures it
By default, a systems RAID configuration is kept in /etc/raidtab, which can configure multiple RAID devices. All of these tools work similiarly. If -a (or --all) is specified, the specified operation is performed on all of the RAID devices mentioned in the configuration file. Otherwise, one or more RAID devices must be specified on the command line. For example: raidstart -a Configures all of the raid devices specified in /etc/raidtab. If only /dev/md1 should be configured, the following command should be used instead: raidstart /dev/md1

OPTIONS

-a, --all
    Apply the command to all of the configurations specified in the config file.

-c, --configfile filename
    Use filename as the configuration file (/etc/raidtab is used by default).

-h, --help
    Displays a short usage message, then exits.

-V, --version
    Displays a short version message, then exits.

NOTES
The raidtools are derived from the md-tools and raidtools packages, which were originally written by Marc Zyngier, Miguel de Icaza, Gadi Oxman, Bradley Ward Allen, and Ingo Molnar.

BUGS
Probably many.

SEE ALSO
raidtab(5), ckraid(8), mkraid(8)