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

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:10:08AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 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?

It appears the code is the same in Intrepid and similar in Hardy.
It is odd that noone has ever hit this on those releases but it is pretty
reproducible on Jaunty.  I am a little wary of changing things on releases
where this has not reproduced.  Perhaps we should submit this upstream as
well and get their acceptance before pushing it back to previous releases.

-apw