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authorNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2006-08-11 18:00:05 +1000
committerNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2006-08-11 18:00:05 +1000
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Allow symlink creation to be disabled from command line or mdadm.conf
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@@ -594,6 +594,28 @@ number will be considered unused if there is no active array for that
number, and there is no entry in /dev for that number and with a
non-standard name.
+.TP
+.BR --symlink = no
+Normally when
+.B --auto
+causes
+.I mdadm
+to create devices in
+.B /dev/md/
+it will also create symlinks from
+.B /dev/
+with names starting with
+.B md
+or
+.BR md_ .
+Use
+.B --symlink=no
+to suppress this, or
+.B --symlink=yes
+to enforce this even if it is suppressing
+.IR mdadm.conf .
+
+
.SH For assemble:
.TP