Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:25:45 +0100 | From | Asdo <> | Subject | Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/13/2010 12:07 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > 0.90 has a very bad problem, which is that it is hard to distinguish > between a RAID partition at the end of volume and a full RAID device. > This is because 0.90 doesn't actually tell you the start of the device. > > Then, of course, there are a lot of limitations on size, number of > devices, and so on in 0.90. > > -hpa > I don't understand... In a system we have, the root filesystem on a raid-6 which is on second (and last) partitions of many disks. It always assembled correctly, it never tried to assemble the whole device. (on the first partition there is a raid1 with boot) So what's the problem exactly with not marking the beginning?
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