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From: Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz>
Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:02:33 +1200
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> > 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.
> > 
> 
> What you're asking for is a partitioning scheme hidden away in md.
> 
Nope, just the first 64K of each member disk to be reserved for a raid
aware bootloader.

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