Re: Degraded RAID-1 installs

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Neither work at present.  Hence my comment about "degraded or degenerate".

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 16:03:37 -0700,
>   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>1. The user doesn't trust you at all, and physically disconnects a
>RAID
>>member from the set before allowing Anaconda to touch the disk.
>Anaconda
>>will not see the disk because it is not there to be seen.
>>
>>2. The user knows he wants to add redundancy later, or intends to run
>>single disk but wants seamless transition to new hardware when needed
>>(+Brendan Conoboy's scenario.)
>>
>>3. The user wants to break the RAID in software during installation.
>>This eliminates the need to crack the case, but assumes one trusts the
>>software to not screw it up. This does have some nice features, but
>>definitely requires a lot of UI work in order to prevent mistakes.
>
>None of those cases requires installing to a degraded array. You can
>change 
>the array to not be degraded before doing the install. (This assumes
>you 
>are talking about pulling one disk from a software raid 1 array.) I am 
>not sure what the limitations are for install to raid 1 arrays with
>only 
>one element are these days. I think the way it used to work, is that
>you 
>couldn't create such an array in the installed, but you could use one
>if 
>it was already set up.

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