From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hansbkk@gmail.com Subject: Re: Software RAID and Fakeraid Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:09:13 +0700 Message-ID: References: <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> <4D47627A.1080509@cfl.rr.com> <20110201162642.GU343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110201162642.GU343@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I personally consider soft raid on raw devices so convluted that I > have never done it. =A0I would rather have something I know works wit= h my > bootloader and other tools, than gain that extra 1MB (at most) that n= ot > having partitions gives. =A0Also given many PCs won't boot from a dri= ve > without a partition table, it isn't even an option then. =46or others googling this later, another very good reason for *never* RAID'ing raw block devices (ie always creating at least one partition first) is that if you ever mistakenly boot into some flavors of Windows (even from some optical discs, perhaps unknowingly left ina drive), your disks will automatically get "helpfully" initialized, as windoze thinks it's a brand new empty drive being offered up like a virgin for sacrifice - **poof** there goes all your data. Speaking from experience 8-( -- 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