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Document PART-POLICY lines 

PART-POLICY has been accepted in mdadm.conf since the same
time that POLICY was accepted, but it was never documented.
So add the missing documentation.

Also fix a bug which would have stopped it from working if
anyone had ever tried to use it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@fb.com>
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NeilBrown 2018-11-09 17:12:33 +11:00 committed by Jes Sorensen
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@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ To update hot plug configuration it is necessary to execute
.B mdadm \-\-udev\-rules
command after changing the config file
Key words used in the
Keywords used in the
.I POLICY
line and supported values are:
@ -565,6 +565,28 @@ be automatically added to that array (or it's container)
as above and the disk will become a spare in remaining cases
.RE
.TP
.B PART-POLICY
This is similar to
.B POLICY
and accepts the same keyword assignments. It allows a consistent set
of policies to applied to each of the partitions of a device.
A
.B PART-POLICY
line should set
.I type=disk
and identify the path to one or more disk devices. Each partition on
these disks will be treated according to the
.I action=
setting from this line. If a
.I domain
is set in the line, then the domain associated with each patition will
be based on the domain, but with
.RB \(dq -part N\(dq
appended, when N is the partition number for the partition that was
found.
.SH EXAMPLE
DEVICE /dev/sd[bcdjkl]1
.br

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policy.c
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@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static int path_has_part(char *path, char **part)
l--;
if (l < 5 || strncmp(path+l-5, "-part", 5) != 0)
return 0;
*part = path+l-4;
*part = path+l-5;
return 1;
}