Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:36:44 +0100 (CET) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: RAID superblock |
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Wakko Warner] > > While this subject is fresh, what would be wrong with using the > > entire drive as opposed to creating a partition and adding the > > partition to the raid? > > Does it autodetect an entire drive? The autodetect logic for > partitions looks at the 'partition type' byte, which of course doesn't > exist for a whole drive. > > Just a thought .. I don't run RAID here.
A good one. I seriously doubt that it indeed will detect drives. The're not partitions, the're drives.
Don't think the current RAID code handles entire drives.
Igmar
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