Mark Spencer wrote:
> > as "failed-disk" as opposed to "raid-disk" in your
> > /etc/raidtab file. The device you give it is not even
> > actually accessed or written to; you could put /foo/bar
> > and it will still build degraded without and error, if I'm
> > not mistaken.
>
> mkraid says "unrecognized option "failed-disk" detected error line 13...
You need a newer version of the raidtools package and the kernel patch. You
can get the latest at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
this is the only way to build in degraded mode, so you will need to upgrade
if you want to accomplish this.
tom