Bug#784070: is it maybe possible to settle dislikings and fix this bug?

[jolly eissucht]

Dear /mjt,

I refer to your messages. Thank you very much for explaining and
answering to this bug report!

I got the following questions:

1) What would you suggest as correct workaround for this problem? (as
you only point out that serverfault solution is wrong. I mean
workarounds that are applicable right now (also for DAUs...)

2) Did I understand you correctly? You said that nobody is going to fix
this bug because of disliking on another. Can there nothing be done
about that? Seems to harm debian project if you ask DAU users like me
that switched to Debian because of greater stability, faster fixes for
problems...

sorry I'm not involved in development and therefore may be  wrong....

kind regards,
clueless newbie




31.05.2015 18:56, Marc Meledandri wrote:
> Is any further info needed here?
>
> I've run into this bug with _both_ GPT and MBR partition tables.

It is independent of the type of underlying devices.

The problem is that with incremental array assembly, when not all
devices are present, we need some timer, and have to run the array
with whatever number of devices available as we currently have.

This is something I overlooked when switching from one-time array
assembly to incremental mode.  Incremental mode is needed when
the underlying devices are slow, there were multiple bugreports
about debian mdadm which can't assemble raid arrays on devices
such as mpt or usb.

Current initramfs-tools infrastructure does not have necessary
infrastructure for such a timeout.

But more important, personally I can't work with any package
which touches debian-installer, because apparently some of the
more important d-i team members dislikes me.  So I can't really
fix anything in mdadm anymore, as it produces d-i component.

Thanks,

/mjt



31.05.2015 23:05, Info Geek wrote:
> I'm not into scripting voodo but if this is of any help this is a
reply I got when I asked about it, before the bug report:
>
>
>
http://serverfault.com/questions/688207/how-to-auto-start-degraded-software-raid1-under-debian-8-0-0-on-boot

This is a wrong solution.  I mentioned the right solution in my
previous reply.  The solution offered on serverfault moves us back
to one-time raid array assembly which does not work for slow
devices.

/mjt