Hi, We know that there was no testing cycle for Sarge (badly enough) but we made a release note for this and you can find it here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-mdadm
If we make a patch that does the transition from /etc/raidtab to mdadm.conf, i'm afraid that we get more trouble. Regards, Matthijs Mohlmann Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Package: raidtools2 > Version: 1.00.4 > Severity: grave > Justification: breaks reboot for sites with multiple RAID arrays > Tags: sarge > > Greetings, > > The transition from raidtools2 to mdadm breaks all installations with > more than one RAID array because /etc/raidtab is ignored during > autodetection. I discovered this surprise on reboot, when the order of > my site's RAID arrays was switched, and disabling autodetection (which > intuition said would use /etc/raidtab) of course resulted in none of > them being mounted. So I tried to remove mdadm but of course raidtools2 > depends on it (since raidtools2 is empty). > > (Actually, a grad student noticed the problem when booting our server > after a scheduled power outage while I was away. He of course had no > idea of what was happening, so our site was down for the better part of > a day as a result! The only clue I had was that mdadm had been > installed as a dependency of raidtools2...) > > That the transitional raidtools2 package entered sarge just days before > the release (and that sarge had zero testing cycles, unlike potato or > woody) means that there was just about zero testing for it, and it is > too late for those admins who like me have since rebooted had the same > problem. But for those who have not needed to reboot, please upload a > fix (translate raidtab to something mdadm understands?) or a *prominent* > debconf warning (maybe even a warning in the raidtools2 description) to > testing-proposed-updates. > > If the right place for this is mdadm then please reassign it. I would > be happy to produce a candidate patch. > > Thanks, > > -Adam
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