** Description changed: Binary package hint: mdadm - - Raid is designed to provide redundancy and failure tolerance. If a raid member fails and redundancy allows it, system operation is not compromised. Upon failure of components the raid array is properly degraded on the fly, and the system *will happily boot* anytime with that degraded array afterwards (without nonsense console droping). + Raid is designed to provide redundancy and failure tolerance. If a raid + member fails and redundancy allows it, system operation is not + compromised. Upon failure of components the raid array is properly + degraded on the fly, and the system *will happily boot* anytime with + that degraded array afterwards (without nonsense console droping). The boot_degraded=NO option (or even default) is therefore an - unreliable, disrupting and improper way to notify an admin about a - failed raid member. (It is triggered only by raid members + unreliable, disrupting, improper and misleading way to notify an admin + about a failed raid member. (It is triggered only by raid members disconnected/failing when the system was powered down and compromises operation. It provides by no means a way to prevent the system from running without redundancy and notifying someone about it.) A better way to notify admins (about all kinds of raid events) is to make the mdadm package depend on a local mail transport agent or wall /notify-send mechanism and stop suppressing the debconf questions for the monitoring deamon. Please - 1) Re-add the init scripts (or new upstart-events) capable to properly start/run necessary arrays degraded during boot (if they don't come up during a timeout period) - 2) Remove the bogus boot_degraded debconf option and question. - 3) Rely (don't suppress and depend ) on proper means to notify admins about raid events. - - + - Remove the bogus boot_degraded debconf option and question. + - Rely on (don't suppress but depend and inform about) proper means to notify admins about raid events. /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat Name: mdadm/boot_degraded
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