On 06/01/2018 03:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2018, Bill Broadley wrote: > >> Bug? Or maybe just an improvement to 4.0? Should I file a bug with ubuntu? > > What you ran into is not uncommon. Ubuntu, Debian and similar systems, will > typically not rev to new major versions of tools, but instead just fix serious > bugs in their existing versions by backporting. Mdadm on the other hand, puts > bug fixes in the latest version, and there is not much fixing of older versions. True and I get that. But it does seem pretty serious that --force won't ignore the most minor of inconsistencies. This is far from my first mdadm --assemble --force. Typically if there's not a serious hardware issue things go well. > It's very common that we recommend to build the latest mdadm version and try > that, just as you did, and it's not uncommon that it solves the problem. 16.04 comes with 3.3-2ubuntu7.6, do you think mdadm 3.3 could have had a bug where it wouldn't clear a failed drive flag and accept a drive that's got an event counter off by 5? > I doubt ubuntu will put in latest mdadm in 16.04 because of a bug report, but > you might want to try it. Might help in the long run to potentially change their > policy. Sure, generally they wouldn't jump a major version. But fixing --force seems like a reasonable request. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
