Bug#784070: The same bug exists in Dracut

[NeilBrown]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 21:43:33 +0500 "Alexander E. Patrakov"
<patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have hit this bug in a Jessie-based virtual machine that I created in 
> order to teach myself how to deal with MD RAID1.
> 
> In order to work around it, I have replaced initramfs-tools with dracut 
> (040+1-1). Result: the bug is still reproducible. The logic to run a 
> degraded RAID1 array if, after some timeout, we cannot find all RAID 
> components, is missing.
> 

Actually the logic is there, but it doesn't work very well.
Dracut-042 contains some important patches - I wouldn't try to
debug booting degraded md with dracut without first updating at least
to verions 042 - and I notice there is 043 out, so best to start with
that.

NeilBrown