Partition type should be "Linux raid autodetect"

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Sat Oct 22 00:47:08 CEST 2011


Hi Fredrik,

[...]
> >>We noticed that, after an installation where we preserve a LVM
> >>volume under RAID (thanks again for that functionality), the
> >>partition table will look like this,
> >>
> >Despite Julien's comment about raid-autodetect being deprecated I'd like to
> >fully understand the (potential) problem. Could you please help me understand
> >whether you have as member of the software RAID LVM volumes or disk partitions?
> >I'd assume it's the latter as otherwise the partition type "raid autodetect"
> >wouldn't make sense, but could you please confirm this?
> 
[...]

Indeed flags of existing partitions were never recorded, and thus also never
written back when rebuilding a (preserved) partition.

I've got a fix here, will be included in future experimental versions.

Best regards,
Michael

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