Bug#763080: Fails to assemble a reshaping raid after disk hickup

[Michael Tokarev]

29.09.2014 06:56, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:52:52 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> And then when force_array only checks up to the number of disks in the
>> array it misses half of them. In my case exactly those it should be
>> forcing.
> 
> This is fixed by upstream patch
> 
> commit f81a2b56c4b437f66aaf5582a9c6b7f5ab2103c4
> Author: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
> Date:   Tue Oct 22 09:55:04 2013 +1100
> 
>     Assembe: fix bug in force_array - it wasn't forcing properly.
> 
> which is in mdadm-3.3.1.

Ow.  I overlooked this.  Thank you Neil for pointing it out.

I've 3.3.2 (with some more changes) ready to be releases in debian,
but I'm afraid it will be difficult due to udeb freeze.  Let's see...

Thanks,

/mjt