Add --offroot argument to mdadm

When --offroot is specified, mdadm will change the first character of
argv[0] to '@'. This is used to signal to systemd that mdadm was
launched from initramfs and should not be shut down before returning
to the initramfs.

Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ReadMe.c b/ReadMe.c
index 9aa798b7..a60e11bb 100644
--- a/ReadMe.c
+++ b/ReadMe.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ struct option long_options[] = {
     {"kill-subarray", 1, 0, KillSubarray},
     {"update-subarray", 1, 0, UpdateSubarray},
     {"udev-rules", 2, 0, UdevRules},
+    {"offroot", 0, 0, OffRootOpt},
 
     /* synonyms */
     {"monitor",   0, 0, 'F'},
@@ -268,6 +269,10 @@ char OptionHelp[] =
 "  --query       -Q   : Display general information about how a\n"
 "                       device relates to the md driver\n"
 "  --auto-detect      : Start arrays auto-detected by the kernel\n"
+"  --offroot          : Set first character of argv[0] to @ to indicate the\n"
+"                       application was launched from initrd/initramfs and\n"
+"                       should not be shutdown by systemd as part of the\n"
+"                       regular shutdown process.\n"
 ;
 /*
 "\n"