From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:52:59 -0400 Message-ID: <1193424779.10336.287.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> References: <18200.53593.687483.120827@stoffel.org> <1192810534.1666.68.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <18200.56684.14194.630264@stoffel.org> <1192813877.1666.79.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <18200.63987.514073.184865@stoffel.org> <20071019212303.GB2013@teal.hq.k1024.org> <1192830129.1666.103.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071020075349.GA17431@teal.hq.k1024.org> <1192885917.1666.112.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071026095417.GC32550@percy.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-OujkJfqo+oLqHpemN2wc" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071026095417.GC32550@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Luca Berra Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-OujkJfqo+oLqHpemN2wc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:54 +0200, Luca Berra wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:11:57AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > just apply some rules, so if you find a partition table _AND_ an md > superblock at the end, read both and you can tell if it is an md on a > partition or a partitioned md raid1 device. In fact, no you can't. I know, because I've created a device that had both but wasn't a raid device. And it's matching partner still existed too. What you are talking about would have misrecognized this situation, guaranteed. --=20 Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband --=-OujkJfqo+oLqHpemN2wc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHIjeLTzP9PM7pjw8RAumfAJwPd1KEY2T1i/ElVIpZ2LihTeOcgwCfRV0i Qx4IXj7uRsfQmviU6PdfX6E= =8wtA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OujkJfqo+oLqHpemN2wc--