Are there any actual bonuses to making RAIDs on whole raw disks?
Not if you're using regular md devices. For partitionable md arrays using partitions seems a little strange to me, since you then have partitions on a partition. That'd probably make it difficult to just mount a single member of a mirror for data recovery, etc ... And Neil seems to favour initrd over kernel auto-detection / assembly anyhow. FWIW, I use whole disks and limit the space used per disk to exactly the rated capacity, i. e. floor ( ( GB * 10^9 ) / 1024 ) blocks with the --size parameter. Regards, C. - 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
