[Bug 872220] Re: Fails to boot when there's problems with softraid

[terminal2000]

This whole automatic recovery mode by default is such a BUG, NOT A
FEATURE. Please rollback.

Most of the servers with RAID on this planet are headless. Stuck in the
boot process by any means is asking for trouble. If it doesn't boot,
then there's no easy way to fix anything not to mention "recover".

What the boot process should do is to work its ass off to make the
system boot, no matter what. If some RAID is degraded, let it be and
just don't mount it automatically.

There's no f**king any reason to stop booting just because some f**king
data disk is not able to mount. Boot it with that one unmounted,
whatsoever.

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Title:
  Fails to boot when there's problems with softraid

Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.10 has a new feature that it warns you while booting if
  there's a program with the softraid.

  It tells you that a hard disk in the softraid is missing, then asks,
  on the console:

  Continue to boot? y/N

  But it ignores all keypresses. After 5 seconds or so it then times
  out, falls to the default "N" option, and dumps you to a emergency
  bash prompt, with no indication on how to proceed.

  The feature is a good idea, but not in the current broken state.

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