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 19:33:30 -0700 Message-ID: <49F7BC7A.3070509@zytor.com> References: <1240574900.4507.2076.camel@ezra> <18935.35883.181289.739254@notabene.brown> <49F79331.1050007@zytor.com> <1240963507.18303.866.camel@ezra> <49F79A0B.1000805@zytor.com> <1240965373.18303.929.camel@ezra> <49F7A2E3.4000908@zytor.com> <1240968482.18303.1028.camel@ezra> <49F7B162.8060301@zytor.com> <1240970905.18303.1085.camel@ezra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1240970905.18303.1085.camel@ezra> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Reurich Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Daniel Reurich wrote: >> Grub2 can't be "fixed" with anything less than replicating the entire >> device driver system of Linux in it, which is equivalent to turning it >> into Linux. >> > Ok then.... > > So we need then to make mdadm --add hook into some tools that can > automatically replicate the partition table layout and add each > respective partition into it's respective raid volume, and > install/replicate the bootloader onto the disk. > > Also then we should really have tool to set this up properly as well on > the initial creation of the raid. > Yes, it would definitely be nice to have this capability. Whether or not it should be done in mdadm or in some kind of wrapper I don't know offhand. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.