From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:34:03 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: mdmon.8: minor manpage update
X-Git-Tag: mdadm-3.1.2~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecdbb368f8ce8bdb710d124c9b5b5e021474a77d;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git

mdmon.8: minor manpage update

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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diff --git a/mdmon.8 b/mdmon.8
index 8a482b34..5275a69b 100644
--- a/mdmon.8
+++ b/mdmon.8
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ mounted there are special considerations when the root filesystem is
 mounted from an
 .I mdmon
 monitored device.
+Note that in general
+.I mdmon
+is needed even if the filesystem is mounted read-only as some
+filesystems can still write to the device in those circumstances, for
+example to replay a journal after an unclean shutdown.
 
 When the array is assembled by the
 .B initramfs