tags 434934 pending thanks also sprach Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.27.2158 +0200]: > I have a number of systems with superblockless arrays, or systems with no > pesistent arrays at all, and its very hard to use the debian mdadm package > (while its very easy to use mdadm itself), as the dbeian package fails > when it should not: > > Assembling MD arrays...failed (no arrays found in config file or > automatically).
How does it fail? It prints a notice (not even a warning) and that's correct. It also exits with 0. You should just turn of AUTOSTART in /etc/default/mdadm, since that does not work anyway in your case. I added an FAQ entry. > nothing failed here in fact: all configured arrays could be assembled > properly, so this is just a spurious and misleading message. > > especially on systems that have superblockless arrays: these can be > configured with mdadm, but i have not found a way to configure these with > mdadm.conf. Superblockless arrays are a thing of the past, why do you want to use them? > It also tries to get itself into every initrd and gives scary messages: > > W: mdadm: falling back to emergency procedure in initramfs. > > I have no idea what the emergency procedure is (this should be explained > more clearly) How about changing the warning to letting initramfs assemble auto-detected arrays. and making it an info message? Anyway, auto-detection requires superblocks, so you have nothing to worry about. > In short, it would be nice if mdadm *respected* the config file > that it is so insistent for users to look at. Or put another way, > either respect the config file, or don't force the user throught > he tedious process of creating one when the package that ignroes > it. I'll happily accept patches which solve this to your liking and still prevent hundreds of users with unbootable systems. > Another option would be tomove those scripts into mdadm-scripts or > something like that, so that debian offers a mdadm package that, > well, gives you mdadm and not some debian-only-enforced config > file that doesn't even offer mdadm's level of functionality. Yours is a corner case. Please submit patches which split the package into mdadm and auto-mdadm. I won't do it as I see no reason for that. Debian's mdadm integration works for most cases out of the box. This is what Debian is: it makes things easier for the administrator. If you don't like what it does, well tell it (hint: AUTOSTART). With the AUTOSTART reference and the de-escalation in place, the pending 2.6.3-1 upload shall close this. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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