From: Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
To: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Cc: Khelben Blackstaff <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alignment of RAID on specific boundary
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:46:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4877c76c1001051746q25df0a3dq5d9973dbdc27c583@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B435C2E.4000201@anonymous.org.uk>
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, John Robinson
<john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/01/2010 13:44, Khelben Blackstaff wrote:
> [...]
>>> Then my understanding of "data offset" is correct. I need to move
>> this offset from 136 sectors to 512 sectors.
>
> Or move your partition start back by 136 sectors, or use version 0.90 or 1.0
> superblocks which have the superblock at the end.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
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Indeed, that was one route I covered earlier in my message.
However it is still a good idea improvement for mdadm to allow the
user to specify a non-default offset for the start of the
data-partition (for a number of reasons).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 19:30 Alignment of RAID on specific boundary Khelben Blackstaff
2010-01-04 21:14 ` David Rees
2010-01-04 21:51 ` Khelben Blackstaff
2010-01-05 8:24 ` Antonio Perez
2010-01-05 13:02 ` Khelben Blackstaff
2010-01-05 6:57 ` Michael Evans
2010-01-05 7:50 ` Michal Soltys
2010-01-05 13:44 ` Khelben Blackstaff
2010-01-05 15:35 ` John Robinson
2010-01-06 1:46 ` Michael Evans [this message]
[not found] ` <7b3edae11001060500g2d63f2cav81bf8a90fc0b946b@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-06 14:44 ` Khelben Blackstaff
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