On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 07:09:24 CET, f-dm-c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: [...] > [For example, and to take into account "OMG but what if massive giant > corruptions and/or mislayered tables at start," have these as defaults: > (a) FS < 10 meg --> no extra header > (b) 10 meg < FS < 100 meg --> extra header after 1 meg gap > (c) 100 meg < FS < 10 gig --> extra header after 10 meg gap > (d) fs > 10 gig --> extra header after 100 meg gap That strikes me as an exceedingly bad idea as it will be unpredictable to those users that need it. And I do not like different places for md-RAID 1.x format superblocks one bit. We should pick one thing, make it otional (but on by default) and stick with it, so users do know where it is, regardless of other parameters. Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt