On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 11:24 +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > On 3/23/2010 8:01 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 06:06 +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > > > >> I had an interesting problem at some point in time with this setup where > >> silo and raid were not playing nicely together. > > > > It'll depend upon which of the 3 different superblock types you have in > > use (whether it is using the boot block for its data) - please see my > > kernelpodcast.org for a summary of the issues. > > Right, at the time I was using the type that stores the RAID metadata at > the end of the disk (the old ones.. can´t remember the version number > right away), and that´s also why I specifically mentioned FS corruption > and not RAID corruption. Well, there's 0.90, 1.0, and 1.1. Peter favors 1.1 as a default IIRC, since it is identical to 1.0 but at the end of the disk. > >> As workaround I used to add an empty partition at the beginning of the > >> disk (the smallest size as possible - basically just a padding > >> partition) on both RAID-1 disks and start using the disk for real from sdX2. > > > > Or you can just begin a partition not at 0. I do a similar thing on my > > Fedora 12 alpha Utra 5 in order to avoid any potential hiccups. > > Indeed that´s also another solution. Yeah. Nice talking on IRC - it's been a long time dude since Spain! Jon. _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc
