Hi, I feel like this is a stupid question. But I actually don't know the answer to it. If I'm going to make a Software RAID array with a bunch of identical disks, do the disks have to have at least one partition on them? Or can I use disks with NO partitions? Similarly, if I have made a hardware RAID array (say, with a 3ware 8506 card), do I have to create at least a single partition on it before I put a file system on it? If partitions aren't necessary, is there any advantage or disadvantage to having a single partition on a disk versus having none? Is having no partitions faster? Andy Liebman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
