I am not expecting that a lenny install cdrom will work without issue on a sarge system but, at least, I am expecting that such a cdrom will not corrupt the sarge system without prompting.
As I mentioned, when I booted the lenny cdrom, it did auto-remount the raid array of my sarge system (thus corrupting it) with NO PROMPT AT ALL. So, what I expect is that: booting a debian install cdrom (any version) will not corrupt an existing system if no action is performed by user explicitly. Off course, if I had managed to remount myself (manually) the sarge raid array using a lenny raid tool, I would not have complain (except on myself). As I suggested to Neil: prior to auto-remount a raid array, the raid tool should perform a version checking so that, at least, user is warned that the raid array might be corrupt performing such operation. Br > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Stephen Gran [mailto:sg...@debian.org] > Envoyé : samedi 28 novembre 2009 19:16 > À : RUSSOTTO François-Xavier 200103; 534...@bugs.debian.org > Objet : Re: Bug#534470: Using mdadm 2.6.7.2 to assemble a raid array > created with mdadm 1.9.0 will corrupt it making mdadm 1.9.0 to crash when > trying to reassemble > > severity 534470 important > thanks > > This one time, at band camp, RUSSOTTO François-Xavier 200103 said: > > After booting a Debian 5.0.1 - Lenny install cdrom in rescue mode > > (debian-501-ia64-netinst.iso) on an Itanium 2 server with Debian 3.1 - > > Sarge (ia64) installed on a software raid 5 root partition, opening a > > console in the root partition mounted from the raid array > > (auto-assembled) corrupts the raid array, leading to a kernel panic at > > server reboot, and preventing from manual reassembly using mdadm 1.9.0 > > (Sarge). > > I suspect that the problem here is that the user is expecting a recovery > tool released nearly 5 years after the OS he has installed to work > without issues. > > I'd suggest that if etch supports the new superblock checksum format, > this bug can be closed, as we no longer actually support sarge (in a > distribution sense - Martin, if you want to make it easier for sarge > users, that's of course entirely fine). I've downgraded the severity > for now, as a bug that only affects sarge users does not affect the > releasability of this software in squeeze. > > Cheers, > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > | ,''`. Stephen Gran | > | : :' : sg...@debian.org | > | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | > | `- http://www.debian.org | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org