openSUSE Recommended Update: mdadm: collection of bugfixes ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2013:1883-1 Rating: low References: #832501 #851993 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: This is a collection of bugfixes for mdadm suitable for openSUSE 13.1. - Several related to proper interaction with udev and systemd which changed significantly for 13.1. - A few improve DDF support for which there is growing interest. - A couple of individual but significant bug fixes. + bnc#851993: Make the array device names in /etc/mdadm.conf in the initrd match those in /etc/mdadm.conf in the root filesystem. + bnc#832501: Teach systemd to start degraded arrays after a timeout if some missing devices never appear + bnc#851993: Teach "mdadm --incremental" to handle "DEVICE" lists from mdadm.conf properly + fate#316007: Include name in "-Db" output for DDF Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-973 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): mdadm-3.3-4.4.1 mdadm-debuginfo-3.3-4.4.1 mdadm-debugsource-3.3-4.4.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/832501 https://bugzilla.novell.com/851993