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Package: mdadm
In the templates file for mdadm, the acronym MD has been consistently
translated with "multidisk". However, it really is short for "multiple
devices". As a rough synonym "software RAID" is often used.
"Multiple device" is also prefered by the Debian maintainer of mdadm. In
the mdadm documentation and messages the term "MD array" is now used
frequently.
In Google "md multiple device" gives twice as many hits as "md multiple
disk".
See for example:
- http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man4/md.4.html
Although wikipedia also seems to have it wrong:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks
There are also a two strings in partman that contain multidisk:
./partman/partman-auto-raid/debian/partman-auto-raid.templates:39:_Description:
Multidisk (MD) not available
./partman/partman-auto-raid/debian/partman-auto-raid.templates:40: The
current kernel doesn't seem to support multidisk devices. This should be
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Oops, wrong package. Should have been mdcfg...
Sorry. Closing.
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