Bug 455120

Summary: udev rule doesn't autodetect md raid arrays
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jón Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn>
Component: udevAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jón Fairbairn 2008-07-12 10:00:21 UTC
Description of problem:

I have a system with several raid partitions (/home and some
others not, currently, root or boot) In Fedora 7 I could
boot the system without an mdadm.conf (why should I write
one? It should be automatic). With Fedora 9 the system won't
boot with the default init scripts.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
udev-124-1.fc9.2.x86_64
also
mdadm-2.6.4-4.fc9.x86_64
mdadm-2.6.7-1.fc9.x86_64 does not solve the problem

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create some md raid partitions (not partitionable raid)
2. put them in /etc/fstab to mount marked for fsck at boot
3. reboot
  
Actual results:
boot dies at fsck

Expected results:
raid arrays should be detected, mounted and fscked

Additional info:
To work around the problem I've put the line 

    mdadm --auto-detect

in /etc/rc.sysinit 

This might be a bug in mdadm:
/etc/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid.rules is owned by udev, but
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-mdadm.rules is owned by mdadm.

May be related to Bug #447818, but I don't have
partitionable arrays. Also Bug #444237, but I've never
needed an mdadm.conf file in the past.

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Comment 2 Jón Fairbairn 2009-06-28 16:12:58 UTC
Since installation of Fedora 11 detected the raid arrays correctly (and created /etc/mdadm.conf properly), I reckon this is done with.