Comment 1 for bug 125471

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Jools Wills (jools) wrote : Re: [Bug 125471] Booting from a degraded array could be improved

On Thursday 12 July 2007, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> The boot process will hand for three minutes and leave you at a busy box
> shell. This could be improved so that the problem is detected earlier
> and the option of getting to the shell (and with suggested commands)
> appears earlier.
>
> Once in the shell, you can force the raid to run; this will update the
> metadata so that the array can be run degraded automatically in future.

Thiis is no good for those that have only remote access to a machine. For my
fileserver I would need to carry it out from under the stairs and connect a
monitor up etc. Not something I would want to do.

Best Regards

Jools
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