From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giovanni Tessore Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:12:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4B7A6FA3.5080009@texsoft.it> References: <4877c76c1002111752h23e14f7aibe58a89181e6f493@mail.gmail.com> <4B77044B.1020609@zytor.com> <20100216112708.4a863f86@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100216112708.4a863f86@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > When mdadm defaults to 1.0 for a RAID1 it prints a warning to the effect that > the array might not be suitable to store '/boot', and requests confirmation. > > So I assume that the people who are having this problem either do not read, > or are using some partitioning tool that runs mdadm under the hood using > "--run" to avoid the need for confirmation. It would be nice to confirm if > that was the case, and find out what tool is being used. > I created it manually with mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=1.0 --level=1 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sd[abc]1 but got no warning or confirmation request (mdadm - v2.6.7.1 - 15th October 2008), I guess due to old version. Regards -- Cordiali saluti. Yours faithfully. Giovanni Tessore