Setting up a new linux software raid tonight I noticed some new behavior from mdadm that I thought I might share quickly. It looks like, as of around version 2.6.4, mdadm has started creating new raid devices in auto-read-only mode. In this mode, the array flips to read/write after the first write attempt.
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