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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