From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: Raid-10 mount at startup always has problem Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:56:14 +1300 Message-ID: <47262CCE.9050301@sauce.co.nz> References: <46D3147D.2040201@amfes.com> <46D49F1A.7030409@tmr.com> <46E4A39C.8040509@amfes.com> <46E4A5F0.9090407@sauce.co.nz> <46E4A7C3.1040902@amfes.com> <471F5542.3020504@amfes.com> <471FA485.6010705@tmr.com> <47202D17.3040000@amfes.com> <1193294406.10336.76.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <472576A5.3030603@amfes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <472576A5.3030603@amfes.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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