Bug#287415: mdadm: degraded md devices not assembled on boot

[Mau]

martin f krafft wrote:
> [...]
> I am talking to upstream about removing them...

I think that this would be a good choice.

> Do note that I *could* trojan the box even before it went live. Of
> course, I won't, but you have to take my word for it.
> 
> Then again, you're installing software I compiled. :)
> 
> I just want you to be aware of that. Having said this, this wouldn't
> be the first time I got root access to some machine to debug
> a problem.
> 
> Cheers,

I know, Martin. This will be true until I'll trust you... and I
definitely need to trust somebody until I can't check all of the code by
myself, that means... never! If I'll ever get enough skills to do that,
I'll still have not enough time... furthermore, I'm pretty sure that
_you_ will never do that.

Anyway, let's see the output of

# sh -x /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid

you can find it attached here. At line 127 you will read:

+ set -- mdadm: /dev/md1 assembled from 1 drive - need all 2 to start it
'(use' --run to 'insist).'

It seems that the behaviour of mdadm with and without --scan option is
the opposite of what manpage says: without --scan the devices can be
started immediately, whereas with --scan also --run is required.
A quick test I made confirms exactly this behaviour; by adding --run to
line 33 in /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid I could boot successfully with only 1
drive active.

Mau
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