Strange filesystem type behavior in rawhide

[Bill Davidsen]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> I had a raid container defined and then deleted it.  However, the former 
> members of the container continue to show as 'ddf_raid_member' as the 
> filesystem type.
> 
> I have deleted and recreated the partitions, formated them to ext3 and 
> then ext4, all to no avail.  They continue to show as 'ddf_raid_member' 
> and wont't mount without -t ext4 provided.  Once mounted they appear to 
> be proper ext4 partitions.
> 
> In addition, tune2fs -U random doesn't change the UUID which, for one, 
> continues to show as "Linux-MDM-^M--M->M-o" for the two partitions 
> exhibiting this strange behavior.
> 
> Can anyone shed light on this?  selinux=0
> 
If I understand what you did, you did not use mdadm to zero-superblock on the 
partitions. Try that, I suspect that is the problem. There are raid and dm lists 
where you can get people who might have other thoughts.

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