On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:43:10 +0100 Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi, > > It's been an ongoing issue for a while trying to figure out how to > handle launching mdmon from the initrd in Fedora and avoid it getting > killed by systemd due to it ending up in the wrong cgroup (udev). > > We tried simply attaching mdmon to the cgroup of systemd but it didn't > really work, and in the end it seems to be more in line with the > systemd mentality to have systemd spawn it. With these patches and a > few pending changes to dracut, I am finally able to boot and reboot > systems with 1 or 2 IMSM arrays. > > The patch for systemctl is implemented as a compile time option rather > than a command line option, since I think it is something that the > distro will decide. However we can make it a command line option if > preferred. > > I also have matching systemd .service files for this, which I am happy > to contribute, but I am not sure if they are useful to other distros > or not? We haven't had a history of including .service files with > mdadm. Thanks. I'll have a proper look next week, however: - I would rather it was a run-time option, not compile time. I believe in giving choice to the admin. - I would like to include the .service files. I don't know if we can get all distros to use the same one, but we certainly won't if we don't try. NeilBrown
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