From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tyler J. Wagner" Subject: Re: advanced partition format, mdadm, and raw disks Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:24:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1309843453.2865.8.camel@baal> References: <1309796133.2766.63.camel@baal> <20110705103030.401066f6@notabene.brown> <1309840130.2865.5.camel@baal> <20110705145641.3f8eb3db@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110705145641.3f8eb3db@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:56 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > 0.90 has data at the start and metadata at the end on a 64k aligned boundary. > So if the partition is 4K aligned, everything else will be too. OK, that's clear. Thanks very much for your help. It's a rare project that the main developer helps users so directly. I appreciate it. I'm rebuilding the array using aligned partitions and 1.2 metadata anyway. It'll be easier to maintain, especially if I later have to replace a drive. Regards, Tyler -- "It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so." -- Ernestine Rose