From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Evans Subject: Re: Alignment of RAID on specific boundary Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:46:29 -0800 Message-ID: <4877c76c1001051746q25df0a3dq5d9973dbdc27c583@mail.gmail.com> References: <7b3edae11001041130n42d053fcpc4923b22278c5671@mail.gmail.com> <4877c76c1001042257h49103054t977de11410eb65c6@mail.gmail.com> <7b3edae11001050544p4f99d7dbq83b72e385151c27@mail.gmail.com> <4B435C2E.4000201@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B435C2E.4000201@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Robinson Cc: Khelben Blackstaff , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, John Robinson 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > 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). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html