On Monday October 24, alanh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 'md' has all the meta-data operations reasonably well factored out, so > > working with new formats shouldn't be difficult. > > That to me still doesn't resolve the bootloader problems. > > Regardless of the md understanding the meta-data operations, it deals > with partitions and therefore the boot sector of each drive in an md > setup is outside the scope of it's operation. md doesn't work with partitions. It works with devices which may be partitions or may be the whole device. I often make raid5 arrays out of a set of devices, none of them partitioned. NeilBrown -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel