DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

[axel]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:52 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 22, 2010 02:24 AM, J wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:41, Alvin Thompson<alvin at thompsonlogic.com>  wrote:
> >>> On 04/21/2010 12:23 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> >>>> Jeez, thousands of people donate thousands of hours of time to give
> >>>> you an OS and you can't fill in a bug report?  For shame....
> >>> I have literally lost about 10 years worth of work (well, half of it).
> >>> And most of the replies I get are from people smugly saying that I
> >>> should have also backed up my data (true, but it doesn't help).  I've
> >>> used ubuntu since Hoary Hedgehog, but right now I'm so sick of their
> >>> current
> >>> get-it-out-the-door-on-time-with-too-many-new-features-to-properly-test-and-to-hell-with-quality
> >>> attitude that I want nothing to do with them.  You're lucky I
> >>> investigated this problem and wrote this warning.
> >> Problem is, no one in a position to fix or even look into this issue
> >> you have officially is going to do so if you don't file a bug.
> > 
> > HA!
> > 
> > 
> >> Coming here (or any other mailing list) and providing the info you
> >> have (which is EXCELLENT info, I might add) is no different than just
> >> running outside and telling your neighbor about your RAID issues.
> > 
> > His RAID issues? Cool, his issues eh? Not ubuntu-installer's issues. 
> > Nice. I, for one, appreciate the heads up.
> > 
> > 
> >> I understand your frustration, but really, no one here can fix the
> >> installer.  The people who can find out about these things from bugs
> >> filed in Launchpad.
> >>
> > 
> > Really, you understand his frustation eh? What about mine (there is a 
> > reason why I am still on Hardy at work and Jaunty at home)? As in maybe 
> > developers need to learn to keep in touch with their users then. For an 
> > issue with such ramifications such as this, I'd say filing a bug report 
> > is the least of the problem. Why? Because it shows that the developer(s) 
> > failed to even to some basic testing and just let their code out in the 
> > wild and wait to see if problems occur. If not, great, if so, too bad. 
> > That kind of attitude plus a 'customer must file complaint via the {name 
> > your favourite pain in the neck dept}' mentality will only lead to the 
> > inevitable. Poor product.
> > 
> 
> This might well be true, and god knows I have my own issues with Ubuntu 
> quality control  (Smart monitoring service that bricks SSD's anyone?)
> 
> However, you are jumping some pretty large conclusions based on a, so 
> far, unsubstantiated claim by someone who has demonstrated lack of basic 
> understanding of how hard drives and raid arrays are created/accessed by 
> the OS.  Who can say what really happened? Until someone can re-create 
> the scenario and actually test it.

Bloody Hell !
After reading the above , I am having second thoughts in updating from
my present 8.04 LTS to the forthcoming LTS.
Isn't  safer to stick with Hardy Heron for the time being?
Axel.
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