From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
To: Atro.Tossavainen@helsinki.fi
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
tas@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Root Drive Mirroring and LVM.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:32:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127093213.GA10049@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401270801.i0R81HdT022197@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:01:17AM +0200, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
>
> Sorry about the crossposting.
>
> I wrote on the Yellow Dog Linux list when somebody asked about software
> RAID on YDL about my experiences with it:
>
> >> The one really big gotcha is that the Macintosh partitioning scheme
> >> can't tell the Linux kernel that certain partitions are to be
> >> considered "Linux RAID autodetect" (as in x86 using the DOS partition
> >> table type 0xfd). This means that you can't boot a Mac Linux system
> >> directly from RAID because the kernel won't be able to autostart the
> >> RAID devices. You have to work around this by creating an initial RAM
> >> disk that uses the raidstart command to start your metadevices, then
> >> swaps the initrd out of the way and proceeds to start the real system.
>
> to which Tim Seufert replied on the same list:
>
> > Hmmm. That would seem to be a lack in the Linux RAID code, since the
> > Macintosh partition table has a vastly more flexible partition type
> > field than DOS: instead of a single byte it's a string. It would mean
> > breaking from the convention of using the "Apple_SVR2_UNIX" type for
> > Linux partitions, but that really is just a convention as far as I know.
>
> Perhaps the PPC Linux developers and the Linux RAID developers should
> get together on this and make some decisions so as to make it happen.
Seems ok for me. Also, i guess that there are other partition types,
like the amiga partitition table the pegasos boxes mostly use, which has
a 32bit identifier for partition types. I guess it is the task of the
RAID code to have some per partition type checking for this RAID autodetect
magic.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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2004-01-27 8:01 ` Root Drive Mirroring and LVM Atro Tossavainen
2004-01-27 9:32 ` Sven Luther [this message]
2004-01-27 9:50 ` Ethan Benson
2004-01-29 1:01 ` Tom Vier
2004-01-29 7:22 ` Sven Luther
2004-01-28 1:42 ` Neil Brown
2004-01-28 8:15 ` Sven Luther
2004-02-04 18:23 ` linas
2004-03-23 7:27 ` Atro Tossavainen
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