> Anyway I'm just happy this works, and that slightly different > sized partitions are ok in a raid5 array. One thing - all the > online docs recommend you use partitions and label them as > raid auto (type FD), all the example raidtabs i've ever see > on the web use partitions, so maybe its useful to warn if one > tries to mkraid on non-partitioned disks? how would one label > /dev/sda as type FD anyway? just a thought.. I have used (am using, mind you :) the DevFS devices for the whole disks successfully, this was with IDE disks though. That is /dev/ide/host0/bus0/... style devices. This is with the stock Mandrake kernel. / Fredrik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
