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Re: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

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Hi fellow Release team member, and Cyril specifically,

On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:18:43 +0100 Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:04:16PM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> > dmraid in jessie currently does not activate my software raid. As the
> > boot/root partition is on the raid, my machine does not boot.
> > 
> > The reason is that in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/dmraid,
> > the call of "dmraid -r -c" results in
> > 
> > /dev/sdb
> > /dev/sda
> > 
> > so that dmraid-activate is run with these parameters, and dmraid-activate
> > calls
> > 
> > Raid_Name=$(dmraid -i -r -cr /dev/$Node_Name | grep -vi "No RAID disks" |
> > grep -vi "formats discovered")
> > 
> > As $Node_Name already contains "/dev", in my case dmraid is called with
> > parameters /dev/dev/sdb and /dev/dev/sda .
> 
> It seems this bug needs someone with the relevant hardware to test and
> implement a fix. While that can still happen for buster, we're not going to
> delay the release for that, so tagging this bug -ignore.
> 
> Given the complete lack of reaction from the maintainer, either a new
> maintainer should step up (with access to the relevant hardware to be able to
> test it), or dmraid should be removed for bullseye. Removing it for buster is
> not realistic because d-i depends on it.

If we want to remove this from bullseye, now is a good moment. I
*assume* that the last comment of Ivo still holds. So, Cyril, what do
you think?

Paul

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