Bug#621786: One Thought/Thing to Try

[Arnaud Desmier]

Hi Neil,

I've applied your patch and it is working well, no more crash with 
DEVICE=partitions in mdadm.conf

Thanks,

Arnaud

Le 15/07/2011 04:25, NeilBrown a écrit :
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:24:52 +0200 Arnaud Desmier
> <arnaud.desmier at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> Thanks for your answer, I've changed /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf as you
>> requested and "/sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan --auto=yes --symlink=no"
>> didn't crashed but exit with code 2, I don't know what it means.
>>
>> Reboot is now going fine and each array is correctly mounted.
>>
>> Arnaud
>>
>> Le 10/07/2011 14:28, Scott Schaefer a écrit :
> ...
>>> If it "succeeds", then I think there is reasonable chance this is
>>> related to the mtdblock device(s).  Update the initramfs, reboot, and
>>> see if the devices are normal on startup.
> So it seems to be directly related to the mtdblock devices... I wonder how.
>
> If you have time/interest to experiment and compile some code I would be very
> interested to know if changing:
>
> 	if (posix_memalign((void**)&super, 512,
>
> on line 1291 of super1.c (in the function load_super1) to
>
> 	if (posix_memalign((void**)&super, 4096,
>
> made any difference.
> i.e. get the source, make this change, compile and install.  Then
> revert the change to mdadm.conf and see if it then fails or works.
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
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