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From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Thomas Grawert <thomasgrawert0282@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Subject: Re: help requested for mdadm grow error
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 22:55:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9576863-cfce-1c08-078b-ca945bb8b551@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24268.15511.752645.491837@quad.stoffel.home>

On 25/05/2020 22:45, John Stoffel wrote:
> This is Debian Buster, and it's he's upto date with debian packages,
> he's almost certainly in a stable setup.  Now maybe we need to talk
> with the Debian package maintainer for mdadm and ask them to upgrade,
> or maybe why they haven't updated recently.

If you're going to do that, I think you need to get the kernel 
maintainer to upgrade that as well...

As I see it, the CAUSE of the problem is that we have an old-but-updated 
frankenkernel. It doesn't matter whether mdadm is contemporary with the 
original pre-franken-state kernel or contemporary with the new 
up-to-date frankenkernel, the fact of the matter is that the 
relationship between mdadm and the kernel isn't regression tested beyond 
making sure that arrays assemble and run correctly.

Hence the inevitable screw-ups when users try to administer their arrays.

Cheers,
Wol

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-25 17:25 help requested for mdadm grow error Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 18:09 ` Wols Lists
2020-05-25 18:18   ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 18:55     ` Wols Lists
2020-05-25 19:05       ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 19:20         ` Wols Lists
2020-05-25 21:45           ` John Stoffel
2020-05-25 21:55             ` antlists [this message]
2020-05-25 19:33         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-05-25 19:35           ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 19:42             ` Andy Smith
2020-05-25 20:30           ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 21:19             ` antlists
2020-05-25 21:22               ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 22:02                 ` antlists
2020-05-25 22:18                   ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 22:32                     ` antlists
2020-05-25 23:01                       ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 23:15                       ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 23:31                       ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-26  1:16                         ` antlists
2020-05-26  1:16                       ` Thomas Grawert
2020-05-25 18:24   ` Thomas Grawert

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