Bug#403299: (no subject)
On Saturday 16 December 2006 01:38, Daniel Dent wrote:
> The system comes up fine and correctly configured after it
> has been booted. However, it doesn't shutdown properly.
> Because / is on LVM the volume group refuses to deactivate
> because / is still mounted (even though it is only read only
> by that point). As a result, mdadm won't shut down the raid
> device. When the system is booted back up, the raid
> partition is marked dirty (because it doesn't shutdown
> properly but reboots anyway) and ends up rebuilding.
I have some doubts about that. / on LVM on RAID is known to work
correctly. Are you sure that the RAID had been fully synced before you
shut down? It seems to me the most likely cause of it being dirty was
that the drives had not yet had a chance to complete their initial sync.
> Ideally the installer would also recognize that /boot has
> been put onto both drives with RAID1 and would install grub
> on both drives and have a menu entry for each drive with one
> configured as a fallback.
That is a known issue.
Cheers,
FJP
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