PART-POLICY has been accepted in mdadm.conf since the same time that POLICY was accepted, but it was never documented. So add the missing documentation. Also fix a bug which would have stopped it from working if anyone had ever tried to use it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> --- mdadm.conf.5 | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- policy.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5 index 18512cb0ec7e..47c962ab2071 100644 --- a/mdadm.conf.5 +++ b/mdadm.conf.5 @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ To update hot plug configuration it is necessary to execute .B mdadm \-\-udev\-rules command after changing the config file -Key words used in the +Keywords used in the .I POLICY line and supported values are: @@ -565,6 +565,28 @@ be automatically added to that array (or it's container) as above and the disk will become a spare in remaining cases .RE +.TP +.B PART-POLICY +This is similar to +.B POLICY +and accepts the same keyword assignments. It allows a consistent set +of policies to applied to each of the partitions of a device. + +A +.B PART-POLICY +line should set +.I type=disk +and identify the path to one or more disk devices. Each partition on +these disks will be treated according to the +.I action= +setting from this line. If a +.I domain +is set in the line, then the domain associated with each patition will +be based on the domain, but with +.RB \(dq -part N\(dq +appended, when N is the partition number for the partition that was +found. + .SH EXAMPLE DEVICE /dev/sd[bcdjkl]1 .br diff --git a/policy.c b/policy.c index c0d18a7eca5b..258f39317951 100644 --- a/policy.c +++ b/policy.c @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static int path_has_part(char *path, char **part) l--; if (l < 5 || strncmp(path+l-5, "-part", 5) != 0) return 0; - *part = path+l-4; + *part = path+l-5; return 1; }
