Re: Alignment of RAID on specific boundary

[Khelben Blackstaff <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com>]

2010/1/6 Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>:
> <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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.
> 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).
>

Yes, it will be nice if Mr. Brown implements this when he finds
the time. I will use v1.0 as you both suggested till then.

Since i am experimenting in Virtualbox, i tried to
hexedit the superblock. I modified 0x80 (offset)
from 136 to 256 and subtracted 256-136=120
from 0x88 (size). It seems to work fine :)

Of course i did this because it is a test array in VB.
I wouldn't mess with the real array. I just wanted
to see if it will work.

Thank you all for your help.