Key off of the existance of /etc/initrd-release as an indicator that mdadm is running in early userspace and set the __offroot flag. This allows the same udev-based assembly rules to be valid both off and on root and, moreover, will propagate to mdmon, should it need to be started. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mdadm.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/mdadm.c b/mdadm.c index 4c7c5ea..557e00b 100644 --- a/mdadm.c +++ b/mdadm.c @@ -1106,6 +1106,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) exit(0); } + /* auto-detect being on an initramfs + * http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InitrdInterface */ + if (access("/etc/initrd-release", F_OK) == 0) + __offroot = 1; + if (!mode && devs_found) { mode = MISC; devmode = 'Q'; -- 1.7.12.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html