Re: RAID1 assembled broken array

[Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>]

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On 07:01, NeilBrown wrote:
> > Wrong lesson.  The correct lesson to gather from this is to prefer
> > version 1.1 or 1.2 superblocks wherever possible.  Superblocks at the
> > beginning of the device disappear when there is no partition table,
> > superblocks at the end can be confused for superblocks belonging to
> > the whole device when there is no partition table.
> 
> 1.0 also protects from this problem.  The 1.x metadata stores the
> offset of the superblock from the start of the device.  That will appear
> to be wrong if you find a partition-superblock when reading from a
> whole-device, so mdadm will reject the device as not having a valid
> superblock.

BTW: Why are new arrays still created with 0.90 metadata format by
default?

Andre
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