From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks. Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:32:37 +0100 Message-ID: <49F83AD5.3010505@anonymous.org.uk> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <87hc0axhg9.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <49F68CE0.2010906@zytor.com> <87ljplnmrw.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <49F73EA2.3020803@zytor.com> <1240957422.18303.697.camel@ezra> <49F791B2.3010009@zytor.com> <1240963353.18303.862.camel@ezra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1240963353.18303.862.camel@ezra> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Reurich Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 29/04/2009 01:02, Daniel Reurich wrote: >>> No What I'm asking for is a superblock layout that allows the boot >>> loader to be installed in each member disk, so that the booting from a >>> software raid array becomes not only possible, but reliable and easy to >>> set up. >>> >> What you're asking for is a partitioning scheme hidden away in md. >> > Nope, just the first 64K of each member disk to be reserved for a raid > aware bootloader. Which is a 64K RAID-1 partition at the beginning of each disc, and the remaining partition of the disc the main RAID member, which you can already do with visible partitions, so what you're asking for sounds to me very much like a paritioning scheme hidden away in md. Cheers, John.