[arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Tuesday 24 Jun 2014 10:07:31 Sander Jansen wrote:
> > But the new problem is: Why this service automatically start? I never
> > manually enabled mdmonitor, and I cannot find its link in
> > /etc/systemd/system/ .
> > 
> > Regards.
> 
> It's part of the udev rule in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/63-md-raid-arrays.rules

I was a little puzzled by this too, but what confused me most is why there are two unit files 
provided by mdadm: mdmonitor.service and mdadm.service. I had the latter enabled 
previously, but the former is started automatically now. I had to disable mdadm.service, 
because it now clashes with the automatically-started mdmonitor. No problem, but it did 
strike me as a little odd.

I like that md monitoring happens automatically now, though. That's a good idea.

Paul