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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-05-11 15:46:46 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-05-11 15:46:46 +1000
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Allow homehost to be largely ignored when assembling arrays.
If mdadm.conf contains HOMEHOST <ignore> or commandline contains --homehost=<ignore> then the check that array metadata mentions the given homehost is replace by a check that the name recorded in the metadata is not already used by some other array mentioned in mdadm.conf. This allows more arrays to use their native name rather than having an _NN suffix added. This should only be used during boot time if all arrays required for normal boot are listed in mdadm.conf. If auto-assembly is used to find all array during boot, then the HOMEHOST feature should be used to ensure there is no room for confusion in choosing array names, and so it should not be set to <ignore>. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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@@ -357,7 +357,8 @@ When reporting information about an array, any array which is tagged
for the given homehost will be reported as such.
When using Auto-Assemble, only arrays tagged for the given homehost
-will be assembled.
+will be allowed to use 'local' names (i.e. not ending in '_' followed
+by a digit string).
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