Allow symlink creation to be disabled from command line or mdadm.conf

[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / mdadm.conf.5

diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5
index 7df36d9effc1e6f4bb80853ee80b966ed5f048ae..f2cb35f4b045e960df42007617260de6ef6ca90f 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.conf.5
+++ b/mdadm.conf.5
@@ -273,6 +273,20 @@ missing device entries should be created.
 The name of the metadata format to use if none is explicitly given.
 This can be useful to impose a system-wide default of version-1 superblocks.
 
+.TP
+.B symlinks=no
+Normally when creating devices in
+.B /dev/md/
+.I mdadm
+will create a matching symlink from
+.B /dev/
+with a name starting
+.B md
+or
+.BR md_ .
+Give
+.B symlinked=no
+to suppress this symlink creation.
 .RE