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.
next prev parent 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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