On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:17 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > 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. O.k. Can you explain to me how to do that and still boot from the md device ? Alan. -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel