[Bug 256669] [NEW] Please remove ext2resize from intrepid: ext2resize tools incorrectly detect RAID stride

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Binary package hint: ext2resize

ext2online & ext2prepare both detected my RAID stride incorrectly.  I
have an ext3 filesystem on an LVM device created on top of an mdadm
RAID5.  The ext3 filesystem was created with a stride of 16, as the RAID
blocksize (and PV block size) is 64k.

After adding a new drive to the RAID set, I grew the logical volume,
then attempted to expand the filesystem on it.

Both ext2online & ext2prepare gave the following error:
This is odd, the RAID stride is not constant at -1009!
This is odd, the RAID stride is negative (-1009)!
Using a RAID stride value of 0

Clearly a stride of -1009 is unlikely.

I ended up taking the filesystem offline and using ext2resize to grow
it, as ext2resize accepts a parameter to set the stride (-S, though it's
not documented in the man page or usage message, it showed up in a
changelog I found with google)

** Affects: ext2resize (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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Please remove ext2resize from intrepid: ext2resize tools incorrectly detect RAID stride
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256669
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