X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=mdmon.8;h=4cbc2ba7ef5f5b40faef77eeb0051d883ef61c4c;hb=3364781b929f571a3dc3a6afed09eb1b03ce607c;hp=c2e5fa47af5b5f02d4528d7d86cb7c25284bb19b;hpb=945f0fcd0179210ae5b72006c3621a73cc6e9205;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git diff --git a/mdmon.8 b/mdmon.8 index c2e5fa47..4cbc2ba7 100644 --- a/mdmon.8 +++ b/mdmon.8 @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details. -.TH MDMON 8 "" v3.1.5 +.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.1-rc2 .SH NAME mdmon \- monitor MD external metadata arrays .SH SYNOPSIS -.BI mdmon " [--all] [--takeover] CONTAINER" +.BI mdmon " [--all] [--takeover] [--foreground] CONTAINER" .SH OVERVIEW The 2.6.27 kernel brings the ability to support external metadata arrays. @@ -101,10 +101,10 @@ call is still required. External metadata formats, like DDF, differ from the native MD metadata formats in that they define a set of disks and a series of sub-arrays within those disks. MD metadata in comparison defines a 1:1 -relationship between a set of block devices and a raid array. For -example to create 2 arrays at different raid levels on a single +relationship between a set of block devices and a RAID array. For +example to create 2 arrays at different RAID levels on a single set of disks, MD metadata requires the disks be partitioned and then -each array can created be created with a subset of those partitions. The +each array can be created with a subset of those partitions. The supported external formats perform this disk carving internally. .P Container devices simply hold references to all member disks and allow @@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ The device to monitor. It can be a full path like /dev/md/container, or a simple md device name like md127. .TP +.B \-\-foreground +Normally, +.I mdmon +will fork and continue in the background. Adding this option will +skip that step and run +.I mdmon +in the foreground. +.TP .B \-\-takeover This instructs .I mdmon @@ -165,6 +173,7 @@ argument is over-written with the name of the container. To allow for containers with names longer than 5 characters, this argument can be arbitrarily extended, e.g. to .BR \-\-all-active-arrays . +.TP .PP Note that @@ -172,7 +181,7 @@ Note that is automatically started by .I mdadm when needed and so does not need to be considered when working with -RAID arrays. The only times it is run other that by +RAID arrays. The only times it is run other than by .I mdadm is when the boot scripts need to restart it after mounting the new root filesystem. @@ -208,7 +217,7 @@ and .B .sock file. The particular filesystem to use is given to mdmon at compile time and defaults to -.BR /dev/.mdadm . +.BR /run/mdadm . This filesystem must persist through to shutdown time.