On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not 100% wedded to the idea, but I'm having a hard time coming > up with a better way to 'only start in degraded mode if you absolutely > have to'. Another suggestion: First, always use --incremental (without --run) Then, first time mdadm runs, fork small helper daemon, that will watch over /var/run/mdadm.map If meta-info about particular update has not been updated for some time (which will be configurable), then the daemon will start that array in degraded mode. -- Zaar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html