Bug 189316 - RFE: Allow degraded (one-way) RAID1 installs
Summary: RFE: Allow degraded (one-way) RAID1 installs
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL: http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show...
Whiteboard:
: 825866 825867 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-19 02:17 UTC by Gordon Rowell
Modified: 2012-05-30 16:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-04-19 15:21:10 UTC
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Allow degraded RAID1 installs (4.80 KB, patch)
2006-04-19 02:17 UTC, Gordon Rowell
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Description Gordon Rowell 2006-04-19 02:17:19 UTC
This is an SME Server patch, pushed upstream for consideration.

We always install on RAID1, even with a single disk. This allows a smooth
transition to a mirrored configuration at a later stage.

The attached patch makes this a valid configuration and starts the RAID device
in degraded mode.

Comment 1 Gordon Rowell 2006-04-19 02:17:19 UTC
Created attachment 127965 [details]
Allow degraded RAID1 installs

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2006-04-19 15:21:10 UTC
We intentionally do not support degraded installs because they give a false
sense of redundancy to a user who is unaware that what they're doing is creating
a degraded array.

Comment 3 Gordon Rowell 2006-04-19 21:57:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> We intentionally do not support degraded installs because they give a false
> sense of redundancy to a user who is unaware that what they're doing is creating
> a degraded array.

Understood. Thanks.

Comment 4 Marc Bejarano 2006-08-10 19:56:37 UTC
it sounds like the purported problem is a user education one.  good
documentation and perhaps some UI work is the solution.  this would be quite a
useful feature.

Comment 5 Martin Sivák 2012-05-29 10:56:49 UTC
*** Bug 825867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jesse Keating 2012-05-29 18:18:22 UTC
*** Bug 825866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Marc Bejarano 2012-05-30 16:52:27 UTC
hi jeremy.

care to comment on my comment 4 above?

tia


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