Request to support software raid devices, vroc raid also need this

[Woodrow Shen]

As OEM projects had a task of Intel VROC support, the one of targets is to install customized desktop on VROC RAID devices. I found that current casper can't support it with latest code:

https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/tree/scripts/casper?h=ubuntu/cosmic-devel#n654:

    # or do the scan of block devices
    for sysblock in $(echo /sys/block/* | tr ' ' '\n' | egrep -v "/(loop|ram|fd|md)"); do
        devname=$(sys2dev "${sysblock}")

Also, I knew that the previous bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/63398) mentioned that the similar request, however, if mdadm can be seeded into https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/, then can we make casper work with md?

[Shih-Yuan Lee (fourdollars)]

Please also make casper depend on or recommend mdadm for this issue.
This issue is after LP: #1779685.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "add-md-support.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Woodrow Shen (woodrow-shen)]

Given mdadm as Recommends in debian/control

[Woodrow Shen (woodrow-shen)]

Hi Stephane,

Just subscribe you and give a notify that a capser patch for cosmic is waiting for someone's review.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is just a friendly reminder that the 18.04.2 point release is coming up shortly if you want to get this in for that.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alex Tu (alextu)]

@brian-murray,

This patch is there for a while, is it possible to include it to 21.04 then have a backport to Focal? So that we can apply the Intel VROC feature to desktop.

[john liptrot (johnliptrot)]

This would make my life so much easier to have mdadm installed on the image by default