[systemd-devel] systemd kills mdmon if it was started manually by user

[NeilBrown]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 01:38:27 +0100 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, 04.12.10 11:41, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > If user starts array manually (mdadm -A -s as example) from within
> > user session and array needs mdmon, mdmon becomes part of user session
> > control group:
> 
> Are you suggesting that mdadm forks off mdmon from within the user
> session? This is horribly ugly and broken and they shouldn't do that.

What alternative would you suggest?

A daemon needs to be running while certain md arrays are running and writable.

NeilBrown