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On 11/02/12 12:19, Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 11.02.2012 12:02, John Hughes wrote:
>>
>> The difference is rather blurred now that it's mdadm that's handling
>> it rather than the old dm-raid.
>>
> This is exactly the problem. GRUB can't distinguish between the both. D=
o
> you know an ioctl, or at very least a command to distinguish them?
> Also honest raid doesn't try to scam you into believing that it's a
> hardware raid.

What scam?  As far as I can tell it's just a mdadm raid with an intel=20
container format rather than a mdadm container format.