Re: [PATCH] mdadm: autodetect being run in an initramfs

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On 27 September 2012 15:41, Dave Reisner <dreisner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

And what shall non-systemd systems do?

I don't have /etc/initrd-release in my initramfs-tools generated
initrd, and so far didn't have a usecase for it.
Should it be an empty file?


> 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
>
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