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From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Soft RAID and EFI systems
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:39:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EEBB13.5040803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52ED6F6B.1040108@arcor.de>

Hi Martin,

On 02/01/2014 11:04 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> Hi Francis,
> 
>> For Fake RAID, I'm not sure but I would say that the bios is able to
>> read the RAID metadata as well.
>> For (md) Soft RAID, I don't know. I would say that the bios is
>> unlikely to understand the md metadata stored in the /boot partition
>> so it won't work.
> 
> there is no big difference between EFI and legacy systems in this area.

Well  the main difference I can see is that EFI firmwares access a
filesystem where as BIOS doesn't in order to load  the bootloader.

In the case of BIOS you can still rely on a bootloader such as grub to
access a partition with MD RAID on it.

Thanks


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-02 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-31 17:02 Soft RAID and EFI systems Francis Moreau
2014-02-01 22:04 ` Martin Wilck
2014-02-02 21:39   ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2014-02-02 21:56     ` Martin Wilck
2014-02-02 20:39 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-02 21:34   ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-02 22:30     ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-02 22:57       ` Phil Turmel
2014-02-03  7:19         ` Martin Wilck
2014-02-04  8:41         ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04  8:48           ` David Brown
2014-02-04  8:53             ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 12:27             ` Phil Turmel
2014-02-04 15:13             ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-04 15:29               ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-07  7:42               ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04  8:32       ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04  8:57         ` David Brown
2014-02-04  9:06           ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04  9:35             ` David Brown
2014-02-04  9:45               ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 15:27             ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-04 15:40           ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-04 14:50         ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-07  8:00           ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-03  9:56 ` David Brown
2014-02-04  8:22   ` Francis Moreau

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