As the Debian mdadm maintainer, I am often subjected to questions about partitionable arrays; people seem to want to use them in favour of normal arrays. I don't understand why. There's possibly an argument to be made about flexibility when it comes to resizing partitions within the array, but even most MD array types can be resized now. There's possibly an argument about saving space because of fewer sectors used/wasted with superblock information, but I am not going to buy that. Why would anyone want to create a partitionable array and put partitions in it, rather than creating separate arrays for each filesystem? Intuitively, this makes way more sense as then the partitions are independent of each other; one array can fail and the rest still works -- part of the reason why you partition in the first place. Would anyone help me answer this FAQ? (btw: [0] and [1] are obviously for public consumption; they are available under the terms of the artistic licence 2.0) 0. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 1. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/README.recipes?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx "the liar at any rate recognises that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company." -- oscar wilde
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