mdadm/systemd/mdmon@.service
Pawel Baldysiak 2167de78aa mdmon@.service: Change type of process start-up to 'forking'.
Mdadm does not wait enough time when mdmon is started by systemd.
It causes various problems with behaviour of a RAID volume with external metadata.
For example: mdmon does not update a value of checkpoint during migration
and second RAID5 volume is read-only after reboot done during
container reshape (both problems occur with IMSM matadata).
If a type of process start-up is changed to 'forking', systemctl will
wait until mdmon (parent) process exits after calling fork.
This way mdmon will always be fully initialized after start_mdmon
and these problems will not occur.
In this case it is recommended to add a path to PIDFile, so that systemd
does not have to guess a PID of the mdmon process.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Baldysiak <pawel.baldysiak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2014-03-11 14:42:57 +11:00

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# This file is part of mdadm.
#
# mdadm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
[Unit]
Description=MD Metadata Monitor on /dev/%I
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=initrd-switch-root.target
[Service]
# mdmon should never complain due to lack of a platform,
# that is mdadm's job if at all.
Environment=IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1
ExecStart=/sbin/mdmon %I
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/mdadm/%I.pid
KillMode=none