From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid1: All my data completely vanished into the void
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:59:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ErULq-0007Nu-5l@highlab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512280030.51387.mlaks@verizon.net>
Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net> wrote:
> What does doing
>
> mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb
>
> do to the partition tables???
> (And why can I still access the data if I messed up the partitions??? very
> odd).
> Can you point me at an explanation of the effects of what I did?
I'd expect that command to overwrite the partition table with the
MD metadata, or at least put the partition table at risk of being
overwritten later.
No problem, as long as you're aware of it. That's how I usually set
my RAID disks up - no partition table, just use the whole disk raw.
LVM is a better solution to the partitioning problem.
--
Sebastian Kuzminsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-28 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 5:30 raid1: All my data completely vanished into the void Mitchell Laks
2005-12-28 5:59 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky [this message]
2005-12-28 6:44 ` Daniel Pittman
2005-12-28 8:23 ` Max Waterman
2005-12-28 10:34 ` Daniel Pittman
2005-12-28 21:52 ` Mark Hahn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-28 4:40 Mitchell Laks
2005-12-28 4:33 ` Mike Hardy
2005-12-28 5:17 ` Mitchell Laks
2005-12-28 4:50 ` Ross Vandegrift
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