Mitchell Laks wrote: > However I think that raids should boot as long as they are intact, as a matter > of policy. Otherwise we lose our ability to rely upon them for remote > servers... It does seem wrong that a RAID 5 starts OK with a disk missing, but a RAID 1 fails. Perhaps MD is unable to tell which disk in the RAID 1 is the freshest and therefore refuses to assemble any RAID 1's with disks missing? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html