Re: Release-critical Bugreport for June 9, 2000
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:44:24AM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> > 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...:-(
That is not correct; any doc you read must have been out of date. The
rules of swapping onto raid1 are currently that you may not swap onto
a device that's being resynced. That's the restriction that the bug
report is addressing.
> > 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'.
I disagree. This isn't a minor configuration issue, it's a data
corruption issue.
--
Mike Stone
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