From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from walhalla.sjomar.eu ([141.105.125.198]:46223 "EHLO mail.sjomar.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755924AbbIYNko (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:40:44 -0400 Received: from hoefnix.localnet (a83-163-227-207.adsl.xs4all.nl [83.163.227.207]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sjoerd@sjomar.eu) by mail.sjomar.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D154320F1 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:40:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Sjoerd To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: raw devices or partitions? Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:40:39 +0200 Message-ID: <2432089.CrOTrZyfAm@hoefnix> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Is it better to use raw devices for a RAID setup or make one partition on the drive and then create your RAID from there? Right now if have one setup that uses raw, but get messages "unknown partition table" all the time in my logs. I am planning to create a RAID 5 setup (seems to be stable these days?), but wondering to deal with raw drives or partitions (4 at the moment). In the wiki they're referring to raw devices in the examples, but that could be outdated? Cheers, Sjoerd