Bug#611537: Bug#643507: not really solved

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 15:47:53 UTC 2012


On 18.11.2011 16:47, Diego Guella wrote:
> Actually, I discovered that the bug is still there for me too, 
> although in has another shape now.
>
> I now have a RAID-1 with 4 members, I use 5 HDD and rotate them daily.
> During the Debian installation, I created a 2-member RAID-1, and later 
> I grew the array to 4 members.
>
If I understand this correctly your RAID never has all the devices 
connected. This leads to big desync (even writing once to an incomplete 
RAID causes desync).
This is not a proper way to handle array. Frankly, I'm surprised 
anything works at all under such abuse.
> What I have now is:
> -If the first OR the second disk (so, one of the 2 disks I used during 
> Debian installation) are present in the array,
> then grub boots correctly.
> -If they are not present, grub shows "Welcome to GRUB", then reboots 
> the machine in an endless loop.
>
> Sorry for the previous noise
> :(
>
> Diego
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko






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