Bug#485989: mdadm metadata issue

2010-02-22 Thread Robert de Bath
Sorry, long posponed email here: I'm sending it because the last retorical questions are still relevent. On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Neil Brown wrote: metadata=0.9 would never work. It is a version number, not a decimal number. metadata=0.90 is correct and totally different from

Bug#485989: mdadm metadata issue

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday August 31, robe...@debath.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, martin f krafft wrote: Why specify it in the first place? I suggest to remove all metadata= stuff from mdadm.conf. Inspect the /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf output. I didn't. It got added automatically... Bug? Bug

Bug#485989: mdadm metadata issue

2009-08-31 Thread Robert de Bath
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, martin f krafft wrote: Why specify it in the first place? I suggest to remove all metadata= stuff from mdadm.conf. Inspect the /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf output. I didn't. It got added automatically... Bug? -- Rob. (Robert de Bath robert$ @

Bug#485989: mdadm metadata issue

2009-08-30 Thread Robert de Bath
mdadm is VERY touchy about the metadata= item in the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file. For example I've just done an upgrade and the upgrade script put metadata=0.9 in the file. This was not acceptable to mdadm -A only when I changed it to metadata=0.90 was mdadm -A able to assemble the array.

Bug#485989: mdadm metadata issue

2009-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert de Bath robe...@debath.co.uk [2009.08.30.2025 +0200]: mdadm is VERY touchy about the metadata= item in the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file. For example I've just done an upgrade and the upgrade script put metadata=0.9 in the file. This was not acceptable to mdadm -A only when