From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 Description of problem: RAID 1 devices that are missing some components (say, if I took out one of the two replicas of my / filesystem to install the new beta on it) are not properly detected. The installers reports the partitions as RAID devices, but not as members of any RAID device. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a RAID1 device out of two partitions. 2.Create a filesystem on it. 3.raidsetfaulty and raidhotremove one of the partitions 4.Create a new RAID1 device using the partition that had been removed, with the other device marked as failed-disk. 5.Create a filesystem on it. 6.Start the installer. Actual Results: It reports both partitions as having type RAID type, but they're not members of any RAID device. I can't create a RAID device out of any single one of them while preserving the contents either. I can't ask the installer to install on any of them as if it just contained an ext3 filesystem, without formatting the entire partition and losing the RAID bits. (I can do this by changing the partition type with fdisk, though; phew!). Expected Results: It should detect RAID arrays containing failed-disks. It would be nice to be able to create RAID devices like that too, but this is a separate bug report. It would be nice to be able to tell the installer to use the existing ext3 filesystem without having to format it or tweak its RAID type. Additional info: This is on the second Limbo. I haven't tried any of this with the first Limbo release.
Dupe of a combination of earlier bug reports about using/creation of degraded raid sets *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61844 ***