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Hallöchen!

me@jse.io writes:

> [...]
>
> If you want to go back to single on a 2 device RAID1, and avoid
> the wear, especially if you plan to return to RAID1 at a later
> date, why not just use it degraded?

Now that I know that the mount-degraded-rw-only-once thing has long
been fixed, I will do that of course.

Bye,
Torsten.

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Torsten Bronger