Bug 2232836

Summary:	No software RAID scrub/check scheduled by default
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	g.danti
Component:	mdadm	Assignee:	XiaoNi <xni>
Status:	CLOSED MIGRATED	QA Contact:	Storage QE <storage-qe>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.2	CC:	ncroxon
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Hardware:	x86_64
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Description g.danti 2023-08-19 10:17:22 UTC

Description of problem:
In previous RHEL version, a cron entry existed for automatic scrub of software RAID arrays. In current RHEL 9.x two services called mdcheck_start.service and mdcheck_continue.service are provided, and they can be triggered by the respective systemd timers. However they call a non-existing script at path /usr/share/mdadm/mdcheck. The mdcheck script really lives at /usr/share/doc/mdadm/mdcheck.

Indeed, checking which packages provides the mdcheck script shows:

# yum whatprovides */mdcheck
Last metadata expiration check: 2:21:21 ago on Sat 19 Aug 2023 09:40:01 AM CEST.
mdadm-4.2-8.el9.x86_64 : The mdadm program controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays)
Repo : @System
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/share/doc/mdadm/mdcheck

As things stand now, one has to create a custom cron entry or softlink the /usr/share/doc/mdadm/mdcheck at the path expected by the systemd services (ie: ln -s /usr/share/doc/mdadm/mdcheck /usr/share/mdadm/mdcheck)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mdadm-4.2-8.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Try starting mdcheck_start.service and see how it fails due to a non-existent ExecStart path.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl start mdcheck_start.service
2. systemctl status mdcheck_start.service
3. the service is in failed state

Actual results:
mdcheck_start.service and mdcheck_continue.service do not start, nor classical cron entry is provided for software RAID scrub/check

Expected results:
Automatic software RAID scrub/check should be provided out of the box.

Additional info:
None.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-23 19:21:54 UTC

Issue migration from Bugzilla to Jira is in process at this time. This will be the last message in Jira copied from the Bugzilla bug.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-23 19:23:34 UTC

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