On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:32:44AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:12:26AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > > Should have kernel automatically create 'sd4' for degraded RAID 1 > > > but it does not? > > > > I believe it will auto assemble if the disk is present at boot time. > > ^^ This does work, I tried to plug the disk as boot device into QEMU VM. > > > But not when you hotplug the disk. > > Pity. Could it be reconsidered? It would ease data recovery (ie. trying > to get a box to boot the disk or using VM.)
It will be particularly usefull at installation time when you plan to create a RAID1 / RAID5 setup and you don't have all the disks yet. RAIDframe had the 'absent' device name that could be used for this particular case.
