Bug 732441 - anaconda uses metadata version 0.9 for mdraided /boot
Summary: anaconda uses metadata version 0.9 for mdraided /boot
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F16Alpha, F16AlphaBlocker
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Reported: 2011-08-22 13:35 UTC by Rudolf Kastl
Modified: 2011-08-22 19:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-08-22 19:18:30 UTC
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program log (407.58 KB, text/x-log)
2011-08-22 18:10 UTC, Rudolf Kastl
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Description Rudolf Kastl 2011-08-22 13:35:10 UTC
Description of problem:
anaconda uses metadata version 0.9 for mdraided /boot instead of 1.2 because of an old limitation of grub1 not beeing able to boot from metadata versions > 0.9. I have verified that this is not the case for grub2 anymore.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f16 alpha rc5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an mdraided /boot with raidlevel 1 in anaconda
2. check the metadata version given in the superblock infos
3. see that /boot uses 0.9 whereas all other raidsets get 1.2

Comment 1 David Lehman 2011-08-22 16:03:14 UTC
Please attach /var/log/anaconda/anaconda.program.log from the system so I can see what exactly was done. Thanks.

Comment 2 Rudolf Kastl 2011-08-22 18:10:51 UTC
Created attachment 519324 [details]
program log

program log

Comment 3 Rudolf Kastl 2011-08-22 18:12:28 UTC
mdadm is executed with 1.0 metadata flag... after reboot it did show me 0.9 as version for md0 though as far as i recall. the default version is 1.2. it works for grub2 if grub 1.99 final is beeing used.

Comment 4 David Lehman 2011-08-22 19:18:30 UTC
02:23:39,609 INFO program: Running... mdadm --create /dev/md0 --run --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=1.0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
02:23:39,893 ERR program: mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.

We are creating the array with --metadata=1.0. If mdadm is somehow overriding that it is definitely an mdadm bug. It should not be overriding explicitly specified parameters.


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