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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	John Sheu <john.sheu@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID and Fakeraid
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:31:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D47627A.1080509@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110131221252.GT343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

On 01/31/2011 05:12 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well one of them stores the raid info at the end of the device, so that
> one offers no help for the bootloader at all.  I think the other stores

What do you mean help?

> it at 4KB in to the device if my memory serves me right.  Not sure if
> the first 4KB are left empty for other uses or not.

It is left empty afaik, which is the whole point of shifting it over to 4kb.

> It seems to me the simplest thing to do is to simply state in
> documentation that grub can not be installed on md raid if there is no
> partition table in use.  This doesn't mean people can't do it for purely
> data oriented drives, but for the drives with the boot laoder there
> are limitations.

Obviously doing nothing is the simplest thing one can do.  Instead I 
would like to do something and end up with a better, more functional 
system.  Hence my suggestion on WHAT to do and the existence of this 
entire thread.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-25 10:26 Software RAID and Fakeraid John Sheu
2010-11-30 19:54 ` Phillip Susi
2010-11-30 22:25   ` Neil Brown
2010-12-02 22:13     ` Phillip Susi
2010-12-03  1:36       ` Neil Brown
2010-12-03  3:15         ` Phillip Susi
2010-12-08 22:43           ` Neil Brown
2010-12-09 19:48             ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 16:44               ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 17:03                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-01-31 19:21                   ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 22:12                     ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-02-01  1:31                       ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2011-02-01 11:04                         ` Michal Suchanek
2011-02-01 16:26                         ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-02-02  0:08                           ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-02  3:22                             ` NeilBrown
2011-02-02 15:34                               ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-02 16:09                           ` hansbkk
2010-12-04  4:34     ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-12-07 17:21       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-12-25 19:55 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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