On Mon, 29 May 2006 17:46:10 -0700 Brendan Cully wrote: > My box lost one of its raid 5 drives the other day. When I rebooted, I > found that I couldn't mount my root filesystem because of that missing > drive, even though it should have happily assembled in degraded > mode. I had to boot from a rescue disk and reassemble the drive from > there (which took hours). > > It would have been much more friendly of the initrd to allow the md > device to assemble in degraded mode. I don't think it would be any > less safe either. > > So I vote heartily to add --run to the yaird mdadm template. Patch > attached for your convenience.
Ok. I agree it makes sense. Will add this today! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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