From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC78DC433F5 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5457615E1 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1348462AbhI3HGE (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:06:04 -0400 Received: from f1.1azy.net ([104.244.74.192]:49916 "EHLO home.thecybershadow.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233661AbhI3HGD (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:06:03 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 81779 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:06:03 EDT DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=home.thecybershadow.net; s=home; h=Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding: MIME-Version:Message-Id:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From:Reply-To:Content-Type: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=CSg3qcUoUV34e9hqCIHB3KWfzLPdTdxdjadKcL6YrWE=; b=tGbx9m4IKyJ69tqp56057r1Y3A 5aAzWrMsIM5FVjHiJGlGn4Gb9AVuG4ufH8G0XZ2JhsFspEIdqkeqL2/kK6xqxW6IS0uLlZIs8wRZI qIJElqiKKG3aXSFpNYbWNndCPiTysy63gGW7oo55xVPGCKOS87KUvo6+rltIqcXBN5ZU=; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cy.md; s=home; h=Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version:Message-Id:Date: Subject:Cc:To:From:Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=CSg3qcUoUV34e9hqCIHB3KWfzLPdTdxdjadKcL6YrWE=; b=wkcRZMLRdbAqkBDnhA/E1Xu6yb P8Baaw8RhOmzwd8NUz5LOpvhakvEqs0797rBG7j9Ynbb+KXmgnOMuueGGdrbwWrsOqDjgZUUZgdqI srXjOG4OpUnWgKrN8CJy/taJvXf1BjXTBvMg2pr7RTIgDi4yCjbM/0fHPF1xXNa9dUQ0=; Received: from vladimir by home.thecybershadow.net with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mVUq9-006Ekc-1L; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:21:21 +0000 From: Vladimir Panteleev To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Vladimir Panteleev Subject: [PATCH] mdadm.8: Copy --no-degraded clarification from --help output Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:21:13 +0000 Message-Id: <20210929082113.1486453-1-git@cy.md> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.33.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org 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