Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56002
noauto+RAID broken
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:24:19 EDT
Description of Problem: Change in rc.sysinit in RH7.2 skips starting /dev/mdN devices marked noauto in fstab, but fsck still checks them ... and bombs Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscriipts-6.40-1 How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a RAID (happens to be RAID-5 here but I don't think it matteers) 2. mke2fs the RAID, add it to /etc/fstab and mark it noauto 3. reboot Actual Results: rc.sysinit skips starting that /dev/mdN because it is noauto, but fsck tries it anyway and bombs Expected Results: Previous to RH7.2, the RAID start was not skipped and the server rebooted and I didn't have to drive to the next county to fix it :-O Additional Information:
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. With mdadm, this isn't as much of an issue in this case; previously, the RAID startup code did change post-7.2, so the issue may have been fixed in the meantime.