Boot with a degraded raid 5

[ben.div]

Hi all

I have setup 2 software raids (5 and 0) with 3 hard disks (120, 160, 250 
Go) on my gutsy box. The raid 5 array (md0) contains the root system, 
and the raid 0 array (md1) is mounted as a storage (unused) partition.
The /boot partition is a normal ext3 partition, present on each disk 
(duplicated manualy, for the moment).

I'm trying to let this setup boot, even if the raid 5 array (md0) is 
degraded (ie one disk fails). When all hd are present, the system boots. 
But if I try with only 2 disks, initramfs loads well, but md0 is never 
mounted so the system doesn't find / and stop loading.
When the boot fails, the system gives me the hand in initramfs console. 
Here, I can run my md array with this command :

# mdadm --assemble --scan --run

The "--run" option tell mdadm to start array, even in degraded mode.

So here, I suspected that the wrong option was passed to mdadm in 
initramfs, and tell it to not to run a degraded array.
I've found (with grep on initrams content) that the file 
/etc/udev/rules.d/85-mdadm.rules contains this line :

SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add|change", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="linux_raid*", \
         RUN+="watershed /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan --no-degraded"

I guess it's the boot parameter for mdadm ! So, I changed it, made a new 
initramfs, reboot with only 2 disks and... nothing more, it doesn't 
start anymore :/

So, after this long story (sorry), my questions :

Do you think I'm totaly lost, or editing this file is the good way ?
Is there a good reason why ubuntu's dev chose this "--no-degraded" 
option for mdadm by default ?
What can I do more ??

Thank's for reading !

Ben