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From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
Subject: Re: Time to  deprecate old RAID formats?
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:07:29 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:52:39AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> Michael> Well, I strongly, completely disagree.  You described a
> Michael> real-world situation, and that's unfortunate, BUT: for at
> Michael> least raid1, there ARE cases, pretty valid ones, when one
> Michael> NEEDS to mount the filesystem without bringing up raid.
> Michael> Raid1 allows that.
> 
> Please describe one such case please.

Boot from a raid1 array, such that everything - including the partition
table itself - is mirrored.

iustin