Bug 755005

Summary:	Migration to RAID5 is sometimes not possible (memory leak)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen>
Component:	mdadm	Assignee:	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	agk, dledford, ed.ciechanowski, Jes.Sorensen, maciej.patelczyk, mbroz
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Description Jes Sorensen 2011-11-18 14:48:48 UTC

Migration from Non-RAID system to RAID5 may sometimes be not possible. There is
a memory leak in mdadm which may stop the migration process. This occurs
especially when large disks are used.

There is a fix:
http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=758be4f1c9cda8eefb2fd241835521462196e16c

Originally reported by Maciej Patelczyk

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2011-11-23 10:46:51 UTC

mdadm-3.2.2-15.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mdadm-3.2.2-15.fc16

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-11-23 23:26:20 UTC

Package mdadm-3.2.2-15.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing mdadm-3.2.2-15.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16299/mdadm-3.2.2-15.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-12-14 23:37:56 UTC

mdadm-3.2.2-15.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.