On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Neil Brown wrote: > Fourth paragraph of the "CREATE MODE" section: > > To create a "degraded" array in which some devices are missing, simply > give the word missing in place of a device name. This will cause mdadm > to leave the corresponding slot in the array empty. For a RAID4 or > RAID5 array at most one slot can be missing. For a RAID1 array, only > one real device needs to be given. All of the others can be missing. Perhaps an example immediately following this one or in the examples section at the end of the manual page. I hate to advocate something that rewards people for not RTFMing, but since this is probably the single most asked question about mdadm, perhaps some extra interactive logic would be helpful for this case. The obvious, if --raid-devices > # of devices listed on the command line then ask if the user is trying to create a degraded array seems like it might create more havoc for special cases though. I'm not sure it's really a good alternative. Maybe it's just a good idea to refer people to the section in the man page. Example: n.b.: For help with degraded arrays, see the corresponding entry in the manual page. -- Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
