From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid-10 mount at startup always has problem
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:56:14 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47262CCE.9050301@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472576A5.3030603@amfes.com>
Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Nothing in the documentation (that I read - granted I don't always read
> everything) stated that partitioning prior to md creation was necessary
> - in fact references were provided on how to use complete disks. Is
> there an "official" position on, "To Partition, or Not To Partition"?
> Particularly for my application - dedicated Linux server, RAID-10
> configuration, identical drives.
My simplistic reason for always making one partition on md drives, about
100MB smaller than the full space, has been as insurance to allow use of
a replacement drive from another manufacturer, which while nominally
marked as the same size as the originals, is in fact slightly smaller.
Regards,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-27 18:14 Raid-10 mount at startup always has problem Daniel L. Miller
[not found] ` <46D49F1A.7030409@tmr.com>
2007-09-10 1:53 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-09-10 2:04 ` Richard Scobie
[not found] ` <46E4A5F0.9090407@sauce.co.nz>
2007-09-10 2:11 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-24 14:22 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-24 16:25 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 20:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 5:43 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-25 6:40 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 9:15 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-26 16:53 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-27 7:57 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-26 19:26 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-27 7:50 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-27 15:07 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-27 20:47 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-28 13:37 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-28 17:55 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 0:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-29 7:41 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 13:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-29 15:21 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 15:54 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-29 14:31 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 5:59 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-29 8:18 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 15:47 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 21:29 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 23:15 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-30 0:03 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-11-01 13:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-17 14:58 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-29 17:08 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 18:56 ` Richard Scobie [this message]
2007-10-25 6:12 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-25 6:51 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-25 13:13 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-25 13:33 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-26 6:12 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-25 14:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 16:13 ` Daniel L. Miller
2007-10-26 5:59 ` Neil Brown
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