On 8 Oct 2006, Daniel Pittman said: > Jyri Hovila <jyri.hovila@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I would appreciate it a lot if somebody could give me a hand here. All >> I need to understand right now is how I can find out the first sector >> of the actual RAID data. I'm starting with a simple configuration, >> where there are three identical drives, all of them used fully for one >> RAID 5 set. And no LVM at this point. > > It would start on the first sector of the first disk. That depends on the superblock version. Versions 0.9x and 1.0 will do as you say, but versions 1.1 and 1.2 will have the start of the disk holding either the RAID superblock (for 1.1) or 4Kb of nothing (for 1.2). -- `In typical emacs fashion, it is both absurdly ornate and still not really what one wanted.' --- jdev - 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
