[PATCH] md: allow dirty raid[456] arrays to be started at boot

See patch to md.txt for more details

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid6main.c b/drivers/md/raid6main.c
index 0000d162d198..9ac6dcd55127 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid6main.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid6main.c
@@ -1929,13 +1929,18 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
                 goto abort;
         }
 
-#if 0                           /* FIX: For now */
         if (mddev->degraded > 0 &&
             mddev->recovery_cp != MaxSector) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "raid6: cannot start dirty degraded array for %s\n", mdname(mddev));
-                goto abort;
+                if (mddev->ok_start_degraded)
+                        printk(KERN_WARNING "raid6: starting dirty degraded array:%s"
+                               "- data corruption possible.\n",
+                               mdname(mddev));
+                else {
+                        printk(KERN_ERR "raid6: cannot start dirty degraded array"
+                               " for %s\n", mdname(mddev));
+                        goto abort;
+                }
         }
-#endif
 
         {
                 mddev->thread = md_register_thread(raid6d, mddev, "%s_raid6");