Re: [mdadm PATCH] Create: tell udev md device is not ready when first created.
From: Peter Rajnoha <hidden>
Date: 2017-05-04 10:58:53
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On 04/28/2017 07:05 AM, NeilBrown wrote:
When an array is created the content is not initialized,
so it could have remnants of an old filesystem or md array
etc on it.
udev will see this and might try to activate it, which is almost
certainly not what is wanted.
So create a mechanism for mdadm to communicate with udev to tell
it that the device isn't ready. This mechanism is the existance
of a file /run/mdadm/created-mdXXX where mdXXX is the md device name.
When creating an array, mdadm will create the file.
A new udev rule file, 01-md-raid-creating.rules, will detect the
precense of thst file and set ENV{SYSTEMD_READY}="0".
This is fairly uniformly used to suppress actions based on the
contents of the device....
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/udev-md-raid-creating.rules b/udev-md-raid-creating.rules new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2be466bcefd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/udev-md-raid-creating.rules@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update +# While mdadm is creating an array, it creates a file +# /run/mdadm/creating-mdXXX. If that file exists, then +# the array is not "ready" and we should make sure the +# content is ignored. + +KERNEL=="md*", TEST="/run/mdadm/creating-$kernel", ENV{SYSTEMD_READY}="0"
This should be TEST=="/run/mdadm/creating-$kernel" (double equals sign, otherwise it's ignored by udev as incorrect rule). -- Peter