Re: [PATCH 1/2] Call mdadm -I with --no-degraded for all disks but the last

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Dan Williams (dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx) said: 
>> Well this only happens for containers (so BIOS raid using mdadm, the new
>> intel stuff) and I've talked to Dan Williams about this (who has done
>> most of the imsm mdadm code) and he considered this normal behaviour ?
>
> Incremental mode will try to run an array as soon as it is feasible. The 
> container is runnable with any number of disks so we need to hold off 
> starting the container until all member disks and hot spares have been 
> added to the container.  This option also covers the case where stale 
> disks are initially added to the container at the start of discovery.  We 
> want to wait until discovery completes as it may find newer metadata on 
> later members that identifies stale disks and prevents them from being 
> re-activated.
>
> So it is blocking too early assembly.

Sure, but if it actually has all member disks and hot spares, I don't
see why it wouldn't start then, even if --no-degraded is passed.

Bill

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