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author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2013-12-03 14:01:24 +1100 |
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committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2013-12-03 14:01:24 +1100 |
commit | b11fe74db0d764c3a245d95bc3651be9bbd59463 (patch) | |
tree | 8da452583d18057e67f65462a2e5dec2f4f3dee8 /mdadm.8.in | |
parent | 169ffac7ad7748c8586fd1d68b7a417d71133140 (diff) |
Incremental: improve support for "DEVICE" based restriction in mdadm.conf
--incremental currently fails if the device name passed does not
textually match the names permitted by the DEVICE line in mdadm.conf.
This is problematic when "mdadm -I" is run by udev as the name given
can be a temp name.
This patch makes two improvements:
1/ We generate a list of all existing devices that match the names
in mdadm.conf, and allow rdev based matching
2/ We allows extra aliases to be provided on the command line, and
perform textual matching on those. This is particularly suitable
for udev usages as ${DEVLINKS} can be provided even though the links
make not yet be created.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mdadm.8.in')
-rw-r--r-- | mdadm.8.in | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -2676,6 +2676,7 @@ Usage: .RB [ \-\-run ] .RB [ \-\-quiet ] .I component-device +.RI [ optional-aliases-for-device ] .HP 12 Usage: .B mdadm \-\-incremental \-\-fail @@ -2730,16 +2731,23 @@ That is, is it listed in a .B DEVICES line in that file. If .B DEVICES -is absent then the default it to allow any device. Similar if +is absent then the default it to allow any device. Similarly if .B DEVICES contains the special word .B partitions then any device is allowed. Otherwise the device name given to -.I mdadm +.IR mdadm , +or one of the aliases given, or an alias found in the filesystem, must match one of the names or patterns in a .B DEVICES line. +This is the only context where the aliases are used. They are +usually provided by a +.I udev +rules mentioning +.BR ${DEVLINKS} . + .IP + Does the device have a valid md superblock? If a specific metadata version is requested with |