Bug#417657: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#417657: sysvinit: reboot causes unclean shutdown of md raid1

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Karl Schmidt]
> Durning shutdown the raid drives are still busy and don't get
> shutdown correctly. This happens intermitently (but more than every
> other time) and requires a rebuild of the raid on start up. There is
> a potential for data loss here.

Sounds bad.  Isn't this a kernel issue?  I would expect it to be
responsible to shut down the raid, as the shutdown scripts can't as
long as the root file system is mounted, even if it is mounted
read-only.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen