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authorJes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>2012-01-25 15:18:02 +0100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2012-01-30 12:11:16 +1100
commit08ca2adffffeb3bfda3cafababfc26706a60463b (patch)
treeb44c11d30e02c6e6f0dd5ac0e84467778bb84e5f /mdadm.8.in
parenteb155f6de0986dc14c37dc9c4172bf0bcb8779fe (diff)
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>
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@@ -255,6 +255,18 @@ Avoid printing purely informative messages. With this,
will be silent unless there is something really important to report.
.TP
+.BR \-\-offroot
+Set first character of argv[0] to @ to indicate mdadm was launched
+from initrd/initramfs and should not be shutdown by systemd as part of
+the regular shutdown process. This option is normally only used by
+the system's initscripts. Please see here for more details on how
+systemd handled argv[0]:
+.IP
+.B http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons
+.PP
+
+
+.TP
.BR \-f ", " \-\-force
Be more forceful about certain operations. See the various modes for
the exact meaning of this option in different contexts.