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[Dimitri John Ledkov <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is in artful since 2017-10-11.

mdadm (4.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Ship mdadm-shutdown.service and suggest dracut-core. Users of systemd
    with rootfs on Intel Matrix Raid and DDF external metadata-raid arrays
    that require mdmon monitoring, may wish to install dracut-core package
    and enable mdadm-shutdown.service. This will create a shutdown
    initramfs, that systemd-shutdown can pivot to. This may result in an
    improved shutdown behaviour with less hangs and synced raid
    arrays. The generated initramfs will takeover mdmon monitoring, wait
    for the arrays to be clean before stopping them and unmounting
    everything and finally executing requested shutdown command.
  * Bump standards version, no changes required.
  * Bump debhelper to 9.
  * Add second email address to avoid NMU warnings.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@xxxxxxxxxx>  Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:55:52
+0100

** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Also affects: mdadm (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  rootfs on Intel Matrix Raid hangs or shuts down not clean

Status in mdadm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in mdadm source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in mdadm source package in Zesty:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * In xenial, mdadm-waitclean is an init.d script, and it appears that
  it doesn't not run late enough. In later releases a systemd-shutdown
  script is shipped instead. Which results in wait-clean action executed
  later in the shutdown cycle, having more chances to complete the
  shutdown with clean/synced RAID array state.

   * In xenial, there is no default shutdown initramfs, and therefore
  mdmon processes are killed before the Intel Matrix RAID / DFF external
  metadata RAID arrays are stopped. This leads to a full resync upon
  next assembly. One options is to implement a shutdown initramfs. This
  is now integrated in he package a mdadm-shutdown.service, optional
  command.

   * In xenial, systemd does not support sendsigs.omit.d, and therefore
  this results in mdmon process being killed prematurely. Thus keep
  mdmon processes started in the initramfs running - such that systemd-
  shutdown can unmount dm held nodes. Ideally systemd on xenial should
  honor sendsigs.omit.d pid-files, or mdmon processes should be migrated
  to be udev rules activated - but such a change, imho, is too risky for
  an sru.

  [Bugfix]
  * Backport mdadm.shutdown systemd-shutdown script to xenial
  * Backport mdadm-shutdown.service job

  [Test Case]

   * Switch logging to console, and make it verbose LogLevel=debug LogTarget=console. Perform shutdown and observe that mdadm.shutdown is executed during shutdown.
   * Check that the system boots with a clean raid-array state.

   * Install system with root on Intel Matrix or DDF raid
   * Install dracut-core and activate mdadm-shutdown.service
   * Reboot
   * System should reboot cleanly, with Intel Matrix raid array synced

  [Regression Potential]

   * On systems that have rootfs on the Intel Matrix / DDF raid
  (external metadata mdadm raid, i.e. NOT the generic linux raid)
  initramfs will result in being held up through the lifetime of the
  boot thus using more steady state RAM. This only affects systems that
  use Intel Matrix / DDF controllers, and are typically bare-metal
  servers.

   * additional wait-clean shutdown script is quick but has an impact on
  shutdown.target speed / time to shutdown or reboot.

   *

  [Other Info]

   * Later releases do not use sysv-init script thus this not a direct
  backport of code from later releases

  Roughly corresponds to https://tracker.debian.org/news/878208 & parts
  of
  https://browse.dgit.debian.org/mdadm.git/commit/?id=61c54b388ce54b8129d039aa6d422aaca0dd0e77
  specifically shipment of the mdadm.shutdown script

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