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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: metadata 1.2 advantages?
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:59:34 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209105934.36189d93@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F32F435.60405@zytor.com>

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On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:21 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 02/08/2012 01:01 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > for now i'm still using grub 0.97 which can only understand metadata
> > 0.9. Are there any advantages of the 1.2 metadata format?
> > 
> 
> There are a lot of advantages to the 1.x metadata format, but 1.0 is the
> easiest for bootloaders to deal with.  1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 is the same
> format, just with the superblock in different places.

Hi Peter,
 wasn't it you who told be that 1.2 was best for boot loaders, as 1.0 uses
block 0 which the bootloader also wants, while 1.2 uses a later block.
That is why 1.2 is the default.

??

NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-08 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-08  9:01 metadata 1.2 advantages? Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 23:59   ` NeilBrown [this message]
2012-02-09  0:38     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-09  1:02       ` NeilBrown

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