Yes, it does show under --misc --help (which I overlooked), but my
thought was that the most commonly used options should show up under
--help.  Here's what I was thinking - please feel free to close if you
disagree ;o)

For someone who doesn't set up a lot of machines, the mdadm help and man
page would be reviewed more thoroughly when creating a RAID array.  Once
created, however, they might not have occasion to run mdadm other than
to check the status, and that might occur infrequently enough that they
need to look it up.  From that point of view, it might be nice to have
--detail a bit more accessible, i.e. on the initial --help page.

Looking at it again, I have an alternate suggestion.  It might be better
to show the output from "mdadm --help-options" as the default output of
"mdadm --help", and move the default output to "mdadm --help-modes" or
similar.  I think that would better serve folks who are looking for
"quick" help via --help, and still provide what's needed to those who
are doing something more involved.

Or not - just a thought ;o)

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mdadm --help should include --detail
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