On 02.10.2012 17:20, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.2.5-1 > > [version 2 of the patch] > > The initramfs hook supplied by mdadm doesn't install mdmon. Also, mdmon > is not included in the .udeb for the installer. > > This means that if you have an array with external metadata (ddf or, > more widely used, imsm - Intel Matrix Raid) that it will come up > readonly. This causes the installer to hang or the system not being > able to boot if root is on that array. > > The attached patch does the following: > > - it makes sure mdadm is included in the initramfs and the udeb package > - it adds a mdadm-waitidle script that runs just before reboot/halt. For > arrays that are still running, it calls mdadm --wait-clean to wait > for the array to go idle. This is needed so that the array is marked > clean, otherwise it will start to resync at the next boot. > - it adds a few lines to /etc/init.d/mdadm for the start and stop actions: > o start: if a mdmon pidfile is found in /run/mdadm, restart mdmon > o stop: link pidfiles of mdmon processes into /run/sendsigs.omit.d, > and make sure that happens before sendsigs runs. > - RUNDIR in /etc/init.d/mdadm is set to /run. This is sure to be ok: > mdadm itself is already compiled with rundir hardcoded to /run. > > Note that I've made sure that this actually doesn't do /anything/ > if you do not have running MD arrays with external metadata. Iow, > this should not break anything, or cause regressions. > > I have added support for installation on Intel Matrix raid (imsm) > arrays using mdadm to d-i, and I'll be sending patches to the debian-boot > list soon. Please consider this patch for inclusion in wheezy.
I think this is much more reasonable now than the previous version. I'll give it a very quick try, but I don't have any hardware currently where I can test the Real Thing unfortunately, so I'll verify only if it does not break existing stuff :) But it already looks rather good. The next thing is to convince the release team that his is indeed a good thing, too :) Thank you very much! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
