[PATCH 0/1] [Jaunty] LP#334994 -- degraded raid boot failures

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Mar 30 08:10:08 UTC 2009


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> After much debugging we have found the bug causing the degraded raid
> boot failures the server team reported.  The patch following this email
> adjusts the teardown of raids to ensure they are completely removed before
> returning to userspace.  This prevents a later race between the delayed
> destructors and the recreation of the raid in degraded mode.
> 
> Proposing for Jaunty.
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: md: wait for possible pending deletes after stopping
>     an array
> 
>  drivers/md/md.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 
Looks like a clear, "crap, why hasn't that done before". ACK Is there potential 
for this getting backported to Intrepid and Hardy or has this been freshly 
introduced?

Stefan


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