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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details. -.TH MDADM 8 "" v2.6.7 +.TH MDADM 8 "" v3.0-devel1 .SH NAME mdadm \- manage MD devices .I aka @@ -1014,6 +1014,19 @@ activity to finish before returning. will return with success if it actually waited for every device listed, otherwise it will return failure. +.TP +.BR \-\-wait\-clean +For each md device given, arrange for the array to be marked clean as +soon as possible. Also, quiesce resync so that the monitor for external +metadata arrays (mdmon) has an opportunity to checkpoint the resync +position. +.I mdadm +will return with success if the array uses external metadata and we +successfully waited. For native arrays this returns immediately as the +kernel handles both dirty-clean transitions and resync checkpointing in +the kernel at shutdown. No action is taken if safe-mode handling is +disabled. + .SH For Incremental Assembly mode: .TP .BR \-\-rebuild\-map ", " \-r @@ -1937,6 +1950,16 @@ that no metadata updates are made and no attempt at resync or recovery happens. Further devices that are found before the first write can still be added safely. + +.SH ENVIRONMENT +This section describes environment variables that affect how mdadm +operates. + +.TP +.B MDADM_NO_MDMON +Setting this value to 1 will prevent mdadm from automatically launching +mdmon. This variable is intended primarily for debugging mdadm/mdmon. + .SH EXAMPLES .B " mdadm \-\-query /dev/name-of-device" |