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 12:36:13 +1200 Message-ID: <1240965373.18303.929.camel@ezra> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <18935.35883.181289.739254@notabene.brown> <49F79331.1050007@zytor.com> <1240963507.18303.866.camel@ezra> <49F79A0B.1000805@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49F79A0B.1000805@zytor.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Daniel Reurich wrote: > >> For large disks, don't use MS-DOS partition tables; use GPT or another > >> clean scheme. > > > > That's not the point. Stop trying to de-rail what I'm trying to > > acheive. > > Not on your life. > > You're trying to do something that will cause users untold of hours of > pain and suffering, and I'm trying to stop your idiotic scheme any way I > can. We are already in pain at not having the capability to reliably boot from a software raid array. This is the last hurdle to supplanting proprietary hardware raid controllers with their proprietary drivers and management tool stacks, and make software raid actually use able for the average Joe with his small business server built from cheap commodity hardware running linux. Or is this what your scared of? -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Ph 021 797 722