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

[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / mdadm.c

diff --git a/mdadm.c b/mdadm.c
index 9fe56abe6c084a76c5b3d7660a8590933ae9b855..bc8aac877000d342c48c6b2340b4cb6604390166 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.c
+++ b/mdadm.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
        int force = 0;
        int test = 0;
        int assume_clean = 0;
+       char *symlinks = NULL;
        /* autof indicates whether and how to create device node.
         * bottom 3 bits are style.  Rest (when shifted) are number of parts
         * 0  - unset
@@ -499,6 +500,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                        autof = parse_auto(optarg, "--auto flag", 0);
                        continue;
 
+               case O(CREATE,Symlinks):
+               case O(BUILD,Symlinks):
+               case O(ASSEMBLE,Symlinks): /* auto creation of symlinks in /dev to /dev/md */
+                       symlinks = optarg;
+                       continue;
+
                case O(BUILD,'f'): /* force honouring '-n 1' */
                case O(GROW,'f'): /* ditto */
                case O(CREATE,'f'): /* force honouring of device list */
@@ -858,6 +865,19 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                fputs(Usage, stderr);
                exit(2);
        }
+
+       if (symlinks) {
+               struct createinfo *ci = conf_get_create_info();
+
+               if (strcasecmp(symlinks, "yes") == 0)
+                       ci->symlinks = 1;
+               else if (strcasecmp(symlinks, "no") == 0)
+                       ci->symlinks = 0;
+               else {
+                       fprintf(stderr, Name ": option --symlinks must be 'no' or 'yes'\n");
+                       exit(2);
+               }
+       }
        /* Ok, got the option parsing out of the way
         * hopefully it's mostly right but there might be some stuff
         * missing