Re: RAID1 storage server won't boot with one disk missing

[Erkki Seppala <flux-btrfs@inside.org>]

Gareth Pye <gareth@cerberos.id.au> writes:

> People tend to be looking at BTRFS for a guarantee that data doesn't
> die when hardware does. Defaults that defeat that shouldn't be used.

However, data is no more in danger at startup than it is at the moment
when btrfs notices a drive dropping, yet it permits IO to proceed. Is
there not a contradiction?

Personally I don't see why system startup should be a special case, in
particular as it can be very stressful situation to recover from when
RAID is there just to avoid the immediate reaction when hardware breaks;
and when in practice you can do the recovery while the system is running
in systems where short service interruptions matter.

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