Fedora 8 blocker update - testers needed (still!)

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 10/26/07, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:50 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:18:58PM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> > > 3) dmraid, especially Intel
> > > See bug 349161 below. Something is causing mkinitrd to mess up the /init
> > > script, which leaves the reporter's system unbootable. We can't
> > > reproduce it at all.
> >
> > Is this the same as the open FC7 reports about initrd problems with dmraid
> > and LVM etc that are sitting there one with a patch that claims to fix it ?
>
> Probably not? Most of the F7 bugs with initrd & dmrait were related to
> the changeover to libata and the initrd being wrong because of device
> names changing and such.
>
> But if you've got some specific bug IDs, I'd definitely like to take
> look at 'em..

I know that I reported some dmraid+LVM flakiness back in F7 test cycle
that wasn't resolved then.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234719
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234724

Unfortunately, I finally made the decision to proceed with a stable
installation and abandon using dmraid and don't have spare drive space
to test this with any more.

I'll see if I can scrounge up some drives to do some testing again ...
but it seems that dmraid is an issue that gets attention in the dev
cycle right at the point where it is too late to do anything about it
because folks hope it will just go away.

/Mike