Control: reassign -1 mdadm On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 20:07 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.120 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > Our server failed to reboot this afternoon. initrd was stuck trying to > get the root device, running local-block in a loop before starting an > emergency shell. There, running mdam -A --scan discovered everything > and exitting the shell allowed the boot to proceed. There was no > previous mention in the boot about being running mdadm. > > My guess (we can't really afford retrying etc. as it's a production > system) is that AIUI mdadm is called just once from local-top, but > that's perhaps too early, the disks are not yet discovered because the > controller is slow. local-block is then run repeatedly to try to get the > block devices, but mdadm from local-top should be called repeatedly too > to try to assemble the md too? It has always been documented that local-top scripts will be run exactly once. We can't change that behaviour now. It's up to the mdadm package to retry whatever needs to be done in its local-block script. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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