[arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

[Sander Jansen]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

It looks like the mdadm.service seems to be a arch-package specific file.
Probably before mdadm contained any systemd specific files itself.

Sander