Re: RAID 1 metadata - keep separate from mirror disks ?

[Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>]

Hi Suresh,

On 02/16/2015 06:37 AM, Suresh Babu Kandukuru wrote:
> Yeh . Thank Phil . it is quite useful .  Now we see there are two
> options . 1) without metadata 2) externally managed metadata . But we
> would like to keep the metadata external to mirror leg ( like on host
> local drive )  for the reasons mentioned below , not the externally
> managed metadata , just by keeping metadata on mirror legs . Do we
> have any option with md driver ?

I'm not sure I understand your follow-up question.  You've restated my
answer, and re-iterated your preference to not have metadata on the
member devices.

So you need to write a service to handle metadata the way you want.  Or
write scripts that will do --build operations at appropriate times
without metadata.

I'm not entirely clear why the on-member metadata is unacceptable, but
as such, either remaining option needs some code of your own.

Phil