From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Reurich Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks. Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:23:42 +1200 Message-ID: <1240957422.18303.697.camel@ezra> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <87hc0axhg9.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <49F68CE0.2010906@zytor.com> <87ljplnmrw.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <49F73EA2.3020803@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49F73EA2.3020803@zytor.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Goswin von Brederlow , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:36 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > And how do you create a raid-1 partition on a whole disk raid? > > > > What you're asking for is a partitioning layer somehow hidden away > inside md. This is about as intelligent as Dick Cheney. We already > have partitioning layers, use them. > Dick Who??? No What I'm asking for is a superblock layout that allows the boot loader to be installed in each member disk, so that the booting from a software raid array becomes not only possible, but reliable and easy to set up. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Ph 021 797 722