From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Jake Thomas <thomasj10@georgefox.edu>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device Unusable At Startup
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:20:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813102020.172d3a93@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACO8viqZO9bbdYtZMT3E0oMfWUjAzps1uNq7rBm419eXtt6bCg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:59:25 -0700 Jake Thomas <thomasj10@georgefox.edu>
wrote:
> sudo mdadm --create /dev/answers --level=1 --raid-devices=2
> /dev/blog,/dev/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
;-)
>
> Thanks for the responses Neil!
>
> I did try the following kernel parameter:
>
> md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1
>
> Does my kernel simply not honor that parameter? I'll try and look
> into my initial ramdisk and see some of these scripts you're talking
> about.
That parameter is for a different issue. Starting a RAID5 or RAID6 when it
is dirty and degraded can cause data loss, so it is not done by default.
In your situation the array is not dirty and it isn't RAID5 or RAID6, so that
doesn't apply.
NeilBrown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-13 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-12 23:59 Device Unusable At Startup Jake Thomas
2012-08-13 0:20 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2012-08-13 6:45 ` Jake Thomas
2012-08-13 6:51 ` Jake Thomas
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2012-09-27 23:47 Jake Thomas
2012-09-28 11:11 ` Jan Ceuleers
2012-09-28 12:12 ` Jake Thomas
2012-09-28 16:24 ` Jan Ceuleers
2012-08-12 22:17 Jake Thomas
2012-08-12 22:39 ` NeilBrown
2012-08-05 7:13 Jake Thomas
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