[Bug 1074606] Re: gparted identifying incorrect raid arrays

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

** Also affects: gparted (Ubuntu Quantal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  gparted identifying incorrect raid arrays

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  Incomplete
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “gparted” source package in Quantal:
  New

Bug description:
  On startup, gparted complains with several popups that it has an
  internal parted bug trying to stat /dev/md/XXXX.  This appears to be
  caused by its reliance on running mdadm --examine --scan to identify
  raid arrays.  Recent versions of mdadm now report the existence of
  "containers" that are not usable block devices, but gparted thinks
  they are.  It also reports the preferred major number rather than the
  actual.  In other words, if the metadata says it is supposed to be
  /dev/md0, that is what mdadm reports, however it may have been
  activated as /dev/md127 instead, causing gparted to try to use a
  device that does not exist.

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