From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID superblock
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:52:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001029075235.A1773@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001029044008.A14922@wire.cadcamlab.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010291435190.14790-100000@server.serve.me.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010291435190.14790-100000@server.serve.me.nl>; from Igmar Palsenberg on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:36:44PM +0100
> > [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.
Actually, I don't think it does. I've not booted into single user mode
(where the raid hasn'tbeen setup yet) to see.
> > 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.
Autodetect, probably not. But it doesn't seem to have any problems with it
as far as usability.
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010261534490.9868-100000@server.serve.me.nl>
2000-10-26 16:19 ` Wakko Warner
2000-10-29 10:40 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-10-29 13:36 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-10-29 12:52 ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2002-03-10 13:28 Rogier Wolff
2002-03-10 23:34 ` Neil Brown
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