From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: Software RAID and Fakeraid Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:31:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4D47627A.1080509@cfl.rr.com> References: <4CF55680.5010703@cfl.rr.com> <20101201092508.7023f974@notabene.brown> <4CF81A16.2010606@cfl.rr.com> <20101203123615.6edce071@notabene.brown> <4CF860EB.7010005@cfl.rr.com> <20101209094354.4c6aaa93@notabene.brown> <4D01328D.9050503@cfl.rr.com> <4D46E6D7.2000205@cfl.rr.com> <20110131170349.GR343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4D470BCF.20508@cfl.rr.com> <20110131221252.GT343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110131221252.GT343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: The development of GNU GRUB , Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, John Sheu List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 01/31/2011 05:12 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well one of them stores the raid info at the end of the device, so that > one offers no help for the bootloader at all. I think the other stores What do you mean help? > it at 4KB in to the device if my memory serves me right. Not sure if > the first 4KB are left empty for other uses or not. It is left empty afaik, which is the whole point of shifting it over to 4kb. > It seems to me the simplest thing to do is to simply state in > documentation that grub can not be installed on md raid if there is no > partition table in use. This doesn't mean people can't do it for purely > data oriented drives, but for the drives with the boot laoder there > are limitations. Obviously doing nothing is the simplest thing one can do. Instead I would like to do something and end up with a better, more functional system. Hence my suggestion on WHAT to do and the existence of this entire thread.