From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: mdadm file system type check Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:39:38 -0500 Message-ID: <45FB46DA.7090307@panix.com> References: <1174089424.22511.26.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1174089424.22511.26.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "William L. Thomson Jr." Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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-