From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Greg Cormier <gcormier@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Superblocks
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:49:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <472C7C6F.2090205@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29a863790711020715h726353bcq99a270494a9f471e@mail.gmail.com>
Greg Cormier wrote:
> Any reason 0.9 is the default? Should I be worried about using 1.0
> superblocks? And can I "upgrade" my array from 0.9 to 1.0 superblocks?
>
Do understand that Neil may have other reasons... but mainly the 0.9
format is the default because it is most widely supported and allows you
to use new mdadm versions on old distributions (I still have one FC1
machine!). As for changing metadata on an existing array, I really can't
offer any help.
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> On 11/1/07, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday October 30, gcormier@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Which is the default type of superblock? 0.90 or 1.0?
>>>
>> The default default is 0.90.
>> However a local device can be set in mdadm.conf with e.g.
>> CREATE metdata=1.0
>>
>> NeilBrown
>>
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-03 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 16:43 Superblocks Greg Cormier
2007-10-27 14:08 ` Superblocks Raz
2007-10-30 4:27 ` Superblocks Neil Brown
2007-10-30 16:06 ` Superblocks Greg Cormier
2007-11-01 23:29 ` Superblocks Neil Brown
2007-11-02 12:33 ` Superblocks Bill Davidsen
2007-11-02 14:15 ` Superblocks Greg Cormier
2007-11-03 13:49 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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