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From: <root@warpy.yomeganet.biz>
To: 'Neil Brown' <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, jim@rubylane.com
Cc: AndyLiebman@aol.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: AW: Stupid Question?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:09:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006401c4416e$db1215a0$1600a8c0@kessler.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16561.24317.771846.481608@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Hi,

> > > I feel like this is a stupid question. But I actually 
> don't know the 
> > > answer
> > > to it. If I'm going to make a Software RAID array with a 
> bunch of identical 
> > > disks, do the disks have to have at least one partition 
> on them? Or can I use 
> > > disks with NO partitions? 
> > 
> > Yes, the disks have to have partitions.  When you specify 
> "make a raid 
> > out of X, Y, Z", the X, Y, and Z are partition names, like 
> /dev/hda1, 
> > /dev/hdb1.  You can't make a raid out of /dev/hda and 
> /dev/hdb - whole 
> > devices.
> 
> Why not?  I do it all the time.
> 
> You cannot get the kernel to auto-detect the raid if it is 
> made from whole devices, but I don't care much about that.  
> It works for me.

Whats the benefit of doing an Array over the whole devices? Are there
any problems, for example that you maybe cannot boot from that array?

Thanks,

Greetings,
Stephan


  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-24  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-23 21:52 Stupid Question? AndyLiebman
2004-05-23 23:23 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2004-05-24  2:01 ` jim
2004-05-24  2:33   ` Neil Brown
2004-05-24  9:09     ` root [this message]
2004-05-24 22:58       ` AW: " Neil Brown
2004-05-24 23:11         ` robin-lists
2004-05-24 23:40           ` Neil Brown

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