Bug#982459: mdadm examine corrupts host ext4

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

Hi Håkan,

* Håkan T Johansson <f96hajo@chalmers.se> [220730 23:43]:
> I have now tried with the mdadm 4.2~rc2-2 installed in both the chroot
> environment (tried only that first), and also the host system.
> Unfortunately, the host / fs is still affected when running
> 'update-initramfs -u', when /dev is not mounted.
[..]

> is kind of readable, though, then I'm lost.

I can't see a difference that should matter from userspace.

I have stared a bit at the kernel code... there have been quite some
changes and fixes in this area. Which kernel version were you
running when testing this?

Could you retry on something >= 5.9? I.e. some version with patch
    08fc1ab6d748ab1a690fd483f41e2938984ce353.

Thanks,
Chris