Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:16:47AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2003-11-14T16:30:42,
>    Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> said:
> 
> > There are issues with the raid superblock but assuming they can be
> > solved, I want partitioning to work easily.
> > 
> > Can LVM work happily with 'legacy' partitioning information?
> 
> I'd really suggest to run DM (either LVM2 or EVMS2) on top of md
> instead. It's much more flexible; I don't see any benefit in 'old style'
> partition information, which has all sorts of problems - ie,
> non-transactional updates (_why_ were you running raid again? ;), static
> as they can't be modified during runtime etc.

This brings up a tangent point...  partitions on top of RAID are a new
thing, which means that one has the chance to define the partition
format.

And I kinda like EFI partition format, a lot better than the other
common ones...

	Jeff


P.S. No, this isn't a blanket endorsement of EFI as a whole :)