A mdadm bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELBA-2021-9432 Oracle Linux 8 mdadm bug fix update

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-9432

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-9432.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
mdadm-4.1-16.0.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/mdadm-4.1-16.0.1.el8_4.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4.1-16.0.1]
- Backport the following commits from upstream that adds write-intent bitmap support
to imsm devices. [Orabug: 33239978]
- Modify mdstat parsing for volumes with the bitmap(b090e910756e)
- Enable bitmap support for external metadata(b554ab5c9bba)
- imsm: Write-intent bitmap support(fbc425562c57)
- imsm: Adding a spare to an existing array with bitmap(69d40de44b6b)
- Add "bitmap" to allowed command-line values(dc95f821ec58)
- imsm: Update-subarray for write-intent bitmap(19ad203ecbce)
- Create: Block automatic enabling bitmap for external metadata(848d71c91dc2)
- Grow: Block reshape when external metadata and write-intent bitmap(bdbe7f819936)
- imsm: nvme multipath support(d835518b6b53)