From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Reurich Subject: Raid Containers Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:27:09 +1300 Message-ID: <1269466029.5759.668.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi. I'm wanting to know are containers properly supported now in mdadm and recent kernels (I assume using only 1.X metadata)? I'm wondering if containers might make a better approach than partitioning and creating separate raid volumes. My thoughts are that maybe using containers potentially simplify the management of drives, to simply adding new or replacement drives to the raid container and having them added into degraded arrays automatically or as spares (for live migration when it gets implemented). Is there any more documentation around on the usage of containers in md? Thanks, Daniel Reurich -- Daniel Reurich. Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Mobile 021 797 722