From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Subject: Re: strange partition table and slow speeds
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:18:42 -0500
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Hi Alex,

On 12/17/2012 09:17 AM, Alex Pientka wrote:

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> 
> /dev/md0:
>         Version : 1.1

                   ^^^^^
You've deliberately chosen a metadata version that places the superblock
at sector 0 of the given device.  If that is a whole disk, it overwrites
the partition table.  The default metadata is v1.2 (which places the
superblock at offset 4k) for this very reason.

HTH,

Phil