From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks. Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:30:58 -0700 Message-ID: <49F791B2.3010009@zytor.com> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <87hc0axhg9.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <49F68CE0.2010906@zytor.com> <87ljplnmrw.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <49F73EA2.3020803@zytor.com> <1240957422.18303.697.camel@ezra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1240957422.18303.697.camel@ezra> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Reurich Cc: Goswin von Brederlow , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Daniel Reurich wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:36 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> And how do you create a raid-1 partition on a whole disk raid? >>> >> What you're asking for is a partitioning layer somehow hidden away >> inside md. This is about as intelligent as Dick Cheney. We already >> have partitioning layers, use them. >> > Dick Who??? > > No What I'm asking for is a superblock layout that allows the boot > loader to be installed in each member disk, so that the booting from a > software raid array becomes not only possible, but reliable and easy to > set up. > What you're asking for is a partitioning scheme hidden away in md. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.