From: berk walker <berk@panix.com>
To: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm file system type check
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:39:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FB46DA.7090307@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174089424.22511.26.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com>
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> It seems mdadm does not check, warn, abort, or etc if a partition has
> an incorrect file system type. This has come up for me on a few
> occasions while building servers with software raid. On one occasion I
> had a machine fully up and running on raid partitions that were ext3 not
> linux auto raid/fd.
>
> If possible would really be nice if it could do a check for that. Since
> one usually has to start over when they discover the problem and go to
> correct it. Since raidtools is not deprecated, others migrating from it
> on Gentoo are running into it at as well. At the present time mostly
> developers. Really would not want users running into it :)
>
> Anyway if that could be addressed that would be great. Not sure if this
> is the right place for this or not. If not please advise, thank you.
>
>
Mdadm has no need to know or care about file systems. It exists on the
hardware, /dev level, upon which file systems, if any, are built.
b-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-17 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 23:57 mdadm file system type check William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 1:30 ` Neil Brown
2007-03-17 2:42 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 5:40 ` Neil Brown
2007-03-17 8:20 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 18:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-17 18:50 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 1:39 ` berk walker [this message]
2007-03-17 9:27 ` Chris Lindley
2007-03-17 23:08 ` Nix
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