On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:47:51 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi.

This is just some minor thing I've noticed:

I intentionally degraded a 2-device RAID1,... and try to auto assemble
it via:
--assemble --scan --no-degrade

It seems this not only assembles the array but also runs it, at least I
can write to the /dev/md/foo file.

I'd have expected that this does not work... but it does...


Did I get anything wrong here?

"--no-degraded" is a slight misnomer.  It should be
 "--no-degraded-unless-known-to-be-degraded".

The case that it stops is when you shut down the array with the array working
perfectly, remove a drive, the try to start the array up again.
In this case the array doesn't know that it is degraded, so "--no-degraded"
will stop it from being assembled.

This is useful when device discovery is slow or unreliable.

NeilBrown

Cheers,
Chris.