Comment 7 for bug 125471

Natasha Polovski wrote on 2007-12-16:
> It's going to prevent me from using Ubuntu on servers where I don't have ready access to the console.
> If it cannot boot unattended in degraded mode, that means my server is down, even though it has an array to use.

I support this and this is an very important issue to us.

In Gutsy we dirty patched the script
    /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local
by adding a conditional
      # now without the --no_degraded as in /etc/udev/rules.d/85-mdadm.rules
       /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan
and than reran update-initramfs -k all
to solve the problem temporarily before rollout.

Of course this dirty patch above will get overwritten (got overwritten)
by the new initramfstools Package 0.85eubuntu36 which is installed due
to an upgrade to 8.04 Hardy. :-(

I'am seeking a cleaner solution to this very important problem.
This is a real show stopper:
A system which doesn't boot unattended if one of the mirrored
hard disk is removed due to a failure doesn't make any sense at all.
Why bother adding a second mirror disk and use RAID1, if it doesn't
work without the second disk?