Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel > 2.6.26

[martin f krafft]

retitle 534274 dmraid breaks mdadm-based system
reassign 534274 dmraid
notfound 534274 2.6.9-3
found 534274 1.0.0.rc15-7
thanks

also sprach Lior Chen <liorc at lirtex.com> [2009.06.24.0800 +0200]:
> I have managed to fully reproduce this. This situation arose from mistakenly 
> installing the dmraid package along with the mdadm package (or maybe it was 
> installed because of some package-dependency, I can't really tell). 
> 
> Removing the dmraid package is not enough, and removing the mdadm package and 
> reinstalling it again is required in order to update the initramfs. You were 
> right about suspecting the  isw_* devices, they were generated by dmraid, and 
> that was the problem.
> 
> The stranger thing is that this situation happens only with new dmraid 
> versions (1.0.0.rc15*). Maybe the dmraid package should check for this conflict 
> and warn the admin, because the result is an unbootable system.

dmraid should definitely check which devices are under mdadm control
and stay away from them.

I thus reassigned this bug.

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