Comment 25 for bug 75681

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Aurelien Naldi (aurelien.naldi) wrote : Re: initramfs script: race condition between sata and md

Perhaps is it another bug on my particular system...
I have written about it in previous comments, when trying to assemble /dev/md0 I have three different results:
* all devices of the array are available: /dev/md0 is created and working
* a device is missing (and --no-degraded is _not_ specified): /dev/md0 is created and working in degraded mode
* several devices are missing (or only one with --no-degraded): /dev/md0 is still created but _not_ working. I get a message like "too many missing devices, not starting the array", but it still appears in /proc/mdstat (not running but present, it may not be completely assembled but it is here!). I can not assemble it until it has been fully stopped using "mdadm -S /dev/md0"

This looks weird, and I had not seen this before, but I had not tryed to launch the array with 2 missing drives...