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From: "Christian Pernegger" <pernegger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with 3xRAID1 to RAID 0
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:56:42 +0200
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> Are there any actual bonuses to making RAIDs on whole raw disks?

Not if you're using regular md devices.

For partitionable md arrays using partitions seems a little strange to
me, since you then have partitions on a partition. That'd probably
make it difficult to just mount a single member of a mirror for data
recovery, etc ...

And Neil seems to favour initrd over kernel auto-detection / assembly anyhow.

FWIW, I use whole disks and limit the space used per disk to exactly
the rated capacity, i. e. floor ( ( GB * 10^9 ) / 1024 ) blocks with
the --size parameter.

Regards,

C.