Re: Release-critical Bugreport for June 9, 2000
miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> In article <cistron.20000609051505.A30783@debian.org>,
> BugScan reporter <debian-devel@lists.debian.org, bugscan@debian.org> wrote:
> >Package: sysvinit (debian/main)
> >Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
> >[HELP] Need fix. (RB)
> > 61227 Kernel panic/filesystem corruption if swapping started while software RAID resyncing
> >[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr 9)
>
> I uploaded a fixed version to incoming last weekend. However this issue
> is not relevant to normal Debian systems - I understand it's only an
> issue for people running the experimental RAID 0.90 and then only the
> ones that have their swap on a RAID array.
Having swap on a RAID array is a well-documented, explicitly-forbidden
practice that is just a quick-and-easy way to fsck yourself.
Of course, there I go again, thinking people might read docs...:-(
> So it's up to the release manager to decide if this should go into
> potato, or that the bug should be downgraded to 'wishlist'.
Personally, I believe this to be a non-bug, but if it is considered a
bug, it should certainly be against the kernel, not sysvinit, and it
should definitely be 'wishlist'.
Mike.
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