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From: Vladimir Panteleev <git@cy.md>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vladimir Panteleev <git@cy.md>
Subject: [PATCH] mdadm.8: Copy --no-degraded clarification from --help output
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:21:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210929082113.1486453-1-git@cy.md> (raw)

Make it easier to discover this POLA violation.
---
 mdadm.8.in | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
index 96846035..74cca534 100644
--- a/mdadm.8.in
+++ b/mdadm.8.in
@@ -1159,6 +1159,12 @@ are present.  This is only needed with
 and can be used if the physical connections to devices are
 not as reliable as you would like.
 
+Note that "all expected drives" means as many as were present the last
+time the array was running as recorded in the superblock.  If the
+array was already degraded, and the missing device is not a new
+problem, it will still be assembled.  It is only newly missing devices
+that cause the array not to be started.
+
 .TP
 .BR \-a ", " "\-\-auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part}"
 See this option under Create and Build options.
-- 
2.33.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-30  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-29  8:21 Vladimir Panteleev [this message]
2021-10-13 10:44 ` [PATCH] mdadm.8: Copy --no-degraded clarification from --help output Tkaczyk, Mariusz

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